Dtetorical 
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of 

Bruton  Cburcb 

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1903 


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PRINTED  BY 

THB   FRANKLIN   PRESS   COMPANV 

PETERSBURG,   VIRGINIA 


Dedication 

Cbc  Congregation  of  Old  Bnrton 
Church,  and  to  Xi^hose  who  will 
share  with  them  in  the  privilege 
of  Restoring  and  preserving  this 
ancient  Cemplc  of  our  ■pore-fathers, 
this  work  is  affectionately  dedi- 
cated. 


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Ipreface 


HIS  historical  sketch  has  been  compiled  in 
order  to  supply  the  constant  demand  for  in- 
formation as  to  the  early  history  of  Old  Bru- 
ton  Church.  The  information  given  is 
largely  derived  from  an  article  on  the  his- 
tory of  B niton  Church  written  by  Rev. 
Jno.  C.  McCabe,  and  published  in  the  Church 
Review,  January,  1856.  Dr.  McCabe  had 
the  use  of  the  old  vestry  book  of  the  Parish 
containing  the  records  of  the  Church  from 
1674  to  1769.  Extensive  and  interesting 
extracts  from  this  book  were  copied  by  him, 
and  an  endeavor  has  been  made  to  embody 
every  one  of  those  in  this  sketch  for  reference  and  preser- 
vation, as  the  book  from  which  the}-  were  copied  never 
came  again  into  the  possession  of  the  Vestry.  They  are 
printed  in  Old  English  type.  Use  has  also  been  made  of 
Bishop  Meade's  "Old  Churches  and  Families  in  Virginia," 
and  of  a  sketch  of  Bruton  Church  written  by  President 
Lyon  G.  Tyler,  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mar>\  We 
have  also  referred  to  Hening's  Early  Statutes  of  Va.,  and 
to  Vol  1  of  Calendar  of  State  Papers  1652-1781,  and 
made  use  of  the  subsequent  records  of  the  Parish.  The 
tablets  on  the  walls  of  the  Church  have  been  copied  and 
inserted,  and  also  some  of  the  most  interesting  inscrip- 
tions on  the  tombstones  in  the  Church  and  Church-yard, 
and  the  names  contained  in  the  Birth  and  Death  record  of 
the  Old  ParivSh  Register  of  1662  have  been  inserted. 

With  grateful  appreciation  I  acknowledge  the  kindness 
of  the  Rev.  P.  G.  Scott,  of  the  Bishop  Payne  Divinity 
School,  Petersburg,  Va.,  through  whose  hands  the  proof- 
sheets  of  this  work  have  passed. 

W.  A.  R.  G. 
Bruton  Rectory, 

Williamsburg,  Va., 

Feast  of  the  Transfiguration,  1903. 


Contents 


Pagb 

Historical  Associations. 7 

History  of  the  Formation  of  the  Parish, 11 

Old  Records  Relating  to  the  Building  of  1683,          -        -        -        -  12 

Death  of  Rev.  Rowland  Jones,  and  Election  of  Rev.  James  Sclater,  17 

Election  of  Rev.  Samuel  Eburne, 17 

A  Silver  Service  Given, ;         .         -  18 

Kev.  Cope  Doyley  Elected,            ........  20 

Removal  of  the  Seat  of  Government  from  Jamestown  to  Williams- 
burg,       -         -        - 20 

Election  of  Rev.  Solomon  Wheatley, 22 

Conflict  as  to  Right  of  Induction,      -.-----       23 
Position  and  Authority  of  Colonial  Vestrymen,       -        -        -         -       24 

Election  of  Commissary  Blair,  Minister, 27 

The  Church  of  1715, -         -       31 

Election  of  Rev.  Thomas  Dawson, 37 

The  Church  Enlarged  and  Organ  Secured, 37 

The  Church-yard  Wall,  39 

The  Belfry  Built,  -         - 39 

Some  Old  Vestry  Orders, -         -         -         -       41 

The  Passing  of  the  Old  Regime,  -------       45 

The  Church  after  the  Revolution,  Legislative  Despoliation,    -        -      49 

Early  Episcopal  Visitations,       -         -         - 51 

Dr.  Bracken,  Dr.  Keith,  Dr.  Wilmer,  Dr.  Empie,  Rectors,         -  51-54 

Modern  Innovations, 55 

The  Colonial  Governor's  Pew,  The  Mayor's  Pew,    -         -        -         -       57 
The  List  of  Pew  Holders  in  1840,       -         -         :         -         -         -        -       59 

The  Clock  in  the  Steeple,     -        -        -        - 60 

The  Restoration  Movement,        --------       63 

The  Old  Communion  Silver,  Font,  Old  Bell,  Old  Parish  Register,    68-72 
Extracts  from  Sermons  of  Commissary  Blair,  -         -        -        -       72 

Induction  Controversy,       - Appendix  A 

Mural  Tablets  and  Tombstone  Inscriptions,     -        -         -        Appendix  B 
The  Ministers  and  Vestrymen  of  Bruton  Parish,       -        -        Appendix  C 

Birth  Record, Appendix  D 

Death  Record, Appendix  E 


Illustrations 

1.  The  Church  seen  from  the  Palace  Green  and 

the  East,  Frontispiece 

2.  Colonial  view  of  the  Church,        -        -        -        -  14 

3.  The  Old  Tower  at  Jamestown,      -        -        -        -  21 

4.  Portrait  of  Commissary  Blair,     .        -        -        -  27 

5.  The  Jamestown  Font,          -        -          -        -         -  30 

6.  The  Silver-Gold  Service,  called  the  "Queen  Anne 

Set,"         -        -        -------  30 

7.  The  Church  seen  from  the  Church-yard,       -        -  41 

8.  The  Church  viewed  from  the  Duke  of  Gloucester 

Street, 48 

9.  Interior  view  of  the  Church,  1840-1886,      -         -  57 

10.  The  Duke  of  Gloucester  Street,        .       .       .       -  57 

11.  Diagram  showing  the   Original    and   Present 

Arrangement  of  the  Church,        -        -       -       -  58 

12.  Interior  view  of  the  Church,  1886-1903,     -        -  62 

13.  The  Jamestown  Communion  Service,            -        -  68 

14.  The  King  George  Communion  Service,         -        -  70 

15.  The  Church  Yard 87 

16.  Two  Pages  of  the  Old  Parish  Register,      Appendix  D 


Hssociations 


LD  Bruton  Church  has  well   withstood   the 
/"^  devastating  touch  of  time.    The  storms  of 

^^^  manj^  winters  have  gone  over  it,  the  fierce 

battles  of  two  great  wars  have  raged  near 
it,  and  in  it  have  lain  the  sick  and  wounded 
of  two  armies,  and  yet  it  stands  to-day 
just  as  it  stood  well  nigh  two  hundred 
years  ago.  The  Building  is  consecrated  by 
hallow^ed  associations.  It  is  intimately 
connected  with  Virginia's  early  history. 
Through  its  ancient  tower  entrance  passed 
the  Court  processions  of  Colonial  days, — 
the  governors  with  emblazoned  emblems,  betokening  the 
authority  and  majesty  of  old  England's  Kings  and 
Queens;  the  Council  of  State,  composed  of  men  whose 
names  will  ever  live  in  our  nation's  history;  and  the 
members  of  the  House  of  Burgesses,  the  defenders  of 
the  liberties  of  the  people. 

Here,  in  pew  officially  assigned,  elevated  from  the 
main  floor  and  richly  canopied,  sat  the  proud  and  im- 
perious Francis  Nicholson,  the  devoted  Edmund  Jennings, 
the  dauntless  Spottswood,  Drysdale,  Gooch,  Dinwiddie, 
Fauquier,  Norborne  Berkeley  Lord  de  Botetourt,  and 
Dunmore. 

Here,  as  Vestrymen,  worshipped  the  Hon.  Daniel 
Parke;  the  Hon.  John  Page,  "the  immigrant;"  Thomas 
Ludwell,  Secretary  of  State ;  Sir  John  Randolph  ;  Peyton 
Randolph,  the  King's  Attorney  and  Speaker  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses ;  Robert  Carter  Nicholas,  Treasurer  of  Vir- 
ginia; Major  Robert  Beverly,  Attorney,  and  Clerk  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  and  many  others  whose  names  ap- 
pear in  the  long  list  of  Vestrymen  and  upon  the  pages 
of  the  nation's  history. 


8  Hssoctations 

Here  once  sat  the  men  who  first  saw  the  vision  of  a 
great  free  republic  of  this  Western  World,  and  who,  at  the 
altar  of  sacrifice,  consecrated  their  lives  to  the  cause  of 
liberty  which  they  loved — George  Wythe,  patriot,  teach- 
er, signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence,  was  a 
vestryman ;  Thomas  Jefferson,  James  Monroe,  John  Tyler, 
and  Chief  Justice  John  Marshall,  and  Edmund  Randolph, 
worshipped  here  while  students  in  the  College  of  William 
and  Mary ;  and  most  of  them  in  after  years  while  serving 
the  Colony  and  State.  George  Mason,  Edmund  Pendle- 
ton, Edmund  Randolph,  Benjamin  Harrison,  Bland  and 
Lee,  while  members  of  the  House  of  Burgesses ;  Patrick 
Henry  w^hile  a  member  of  the  House  and  Governor  of 
Virginia  (1776),  and  George  Washington,  while  seeking 
to  win  the  heart  and  hand  of  the  beautiful  Martha 
Custis. 

These,  and  many  others,  whose  names  are  deathless, 
have  passed  within  these  sacred  courts  and  meekly  bowed 
the  knee  in  supplication  to  the  King  of  Kings.  As  we 
linger  in  the  silence  of  the  Church,  they  pass  before  the 
awakened  vision  of  the  mind.  They  sit,  as  they  did  of  old, 
listening  to  the  law  of  the  God  of  Nations,  and  to  the  mes- 
sage of  liberty  in  the  great  Gospel  of  redemption.  The 
walls  of  the  cruciform  old  building  seem  to  echo  again 
with  their  voice  of  prayer  and  thanksgiving. 

Here  the  youth  of  the  nation  that  was  to  be,  dreamed 
dreams  and  saw  visions  which  awakened  the  high  and 
noble  aspirations  of  their  lives ;  for  here  they  heard  the 
Gospel  of  Liberty,  and  engaged  in  the  service  of  devotion 
and  adoration  which  rouses  the  best  that  is  in  a  man, 
and  inspires  him  to  live  and  serve  for  the  Glory  of  his  God 
and  the  good  of  his  fellowman. 

Here  have  ministered  faithful  servants  of  the  most 
high  God.  The  services  have  been  almost  continuous. 
The  College  Faculty  could  always  be  relied  upon  to  sup- 
ply ministerial  service,  and  the  City  of  Williamsburg, 
being  the  seat  of  the  Colonial  Government,  created  a  con- 


Haaociattons  9 

stant  demand  for  the  services  and  ministrations  of  tlie 
Chnreh. 

The  Church  was  ])reserved  because  it  was  needed. 
Thus  the  present  building  has  l^een  longer  in  continuous 
use  than  anj--  other  Episcopal  Church  in  America. 

Around  the  Church,  side  by  side  with  the  peers,  war- 
riors, scholars,  and  statesmen  of  the  past  in  their  scul]>- 
tured  tombs,  beneath  many  mouldering  heaps,  "the  ntde 
forefathers  of  the  hamlet  slecj)."  Some  to  earthly  iamc 
are  now  unknown,  the  names  of  others  live,  not  because 
they  are  engraved  in  marl)lc,  but  because  the\^  hel])ed  to 
make  the  nation's  history  great. 

The  Old  Church,  with  its  historic  associations  and 
hallowed  memories,  is  to  us  an  inheritance  from  the  past 
and  a  tinist  for  the  future.  It  must  be  preserved.  It  must 
remain  to  tell  its  storv'  of  the  days  that  are  gone  to  days 
that  may  yet  be.  It  belongs,  in  a  sense,  to  the  nation 
with  whose  early  history  it  is  so  intimately  associated. 
It  is  doubly  dear  to  us  to  whom  it  witnesses  of  the  in- 
fluence of  our  Church  over  the  lives  of  the  Nation-build- 
ers, and  to  whom  it  speaks  of  the  continuity  of  our 
Church's  life  and  liturgy. 

The  work  of  restoration,  which  has  l^en  determined 
upon,  will  be  done  with  reverence  and  with  devotion. 
The  exterior  will  be  left  unchanged,  for  change  here  would 
mean  innovation.  The  interior,  which  was  changed  and 
distorted,  in  view  of  conditions  which  no  longer  exists, 
will  be  restored  to  its  ancient  form,  and  the  whole  will  be 
transmitted,  under  the  good  providence  of  God,  to  pos- 
terity as  it  was  planned  and  builded  and  used  bj  our 
forefathers. 


^  *IDi6torical  IFtotee^: 


©rioinal  pariebcs 

|N  1632  Middle  Plantation  (subsequent, 
ly  Williamsburg)  was  "laid  out  and 
paled  in.'"  A  Parish  bearing  this 
name  was  created  shortly  there- 
after 2  In  1644  a  parish  in  James 
City  was  created  called  "Ilarrop 
Parish,"  which  on  April  1st,  1648, 
was  united  with  Middle  Plantation, 
forming  Middletown  Parish. 

In  1674  the  parish  of  Marston 
(established  in  York  county  in 
1654)  and  Middletown  Parish  were 
united  and  became  known  as  Bro- 
Tox  Parish- 

Of  the  early  history  of  Middle 
Plantation,  or  Williamsburg,  little  is 
known.  The  early  court  records 
have  been  destroyed,  and  there  was 
no  vestry-book  preserved  prior  to  the 
one  of  1674.  There  was,  however,  a  Church  at  Williams- 
burg in  1665.  This  fact  is  established  by  an  entry  in  the 
vestry'-book  of  Middlesex  Parish,  made  in  1665,  w^hich 
directs  that  a  Church  be  built  in   that  parish  after  the 


1  Hening  I,  139,  199,  208. 
3  York  Records. 


12  FMstoncal  jVotcs 

model  of  the  one  in  Williamsburg.'  This  was  doubtless 
a  wooden  structure.  How  long  it  had  then  been  in  use  is 
not  known. 

Zbc  Wimnc  of  the  parish 

The  name  Bruton  was  doubtless  given  to  the  Parish 
in  honor  of  Thomas  Ludwell,  Esq.,  who,  according  to  the 
record  inscribed  on  his  tombstone  at  the  door  of  Bruton 
Church,  was  born  in  Bruton,  in  the  County  of  Summer- 
set, England,  and  departed  this  life  in  the  year  1678.- 

©It)  lDc0tr\>  1Recor^6  IRcIatitiG  to 
Cburcb  BuilMno,  )6tc. 

The  first  entr\^  in  the  Yestry-book  bears  date  "Hprvl 
y,c  i8tb,  1674,''  and  on  that  day  we  find  present  at  the 
Vcstr\^  meeting: 

^'XThc  honourable  Coll:  DanU  parkc,  Mr.  Rowland 
7onc8,  Minister,  Mr.  lohn  page,  Mr.  lames  Besoutb,  Mr. 
Robt.  Cobb  and  Mr.  Bray.,— Capt.  Cbesley,  and  Mr.  Hylett, 
Cburcb  hardens.  Mr.  lobn  Chvens,  Sidesman.  Cbcre 
being  in  the  last  lc\ne  eight  thousand  five  hundred  pounds 
of  tobacco  in  Cashc,  Lcvyed  to  the  Roncurable  O^omas 
Ludwell,  Secretary,  and  Daniel  Parhe,  6sq.,  25  pound  ster- 
ling, due  to  them  upon  ye  purchase  of  yc  Glcabe,"  Ac 

In  Nov.  1677,  the  vestry- concluded  that :  "<)Clherea6, 
upon  ye  Tisiting  of  the  parishes,  It  was  fully  agreed  that 
neither  the  Upper  Church,  nor  the  lower  Church  should  be 
repaired,  but  a  New  Church  should  be  built  with  brich,  att 
the  Middle  Plantation,— Now  in  respect  of  the  late  troubles 
and  Lea  vies  this  t^are.  It  is  by  this  Testry  Ordered  that 
the  next  laying  of  the  Leavie  for  this  parish,  the  Oemen- 

1  Bishop  Meade's  Old  Churches  and  Families  in  Virginia. 

2  Sir  William  Berkeley,  Governor,  whose  widow,  Lady  Frances 
Berkeley,  Col.  Phierp  Ludwell  married,  was  also  from  Bruton,  England. 


RiatoHcal  ^fotc9  18 

610118  and  order  of  building  a  jVcw  Church,  and  by  whom 
to  be  Undertaken,  be  there  fully  determined ;  and  that  the 
present  Church  dardcns  be  desired  to  tahe  Subscriptions 
from  ye  Ronorablc  Chomas  Ludwell,  Daniel  parhe,  Gsq^ 
Major  "jfo:  page,  of  their  former  promises:  and  also  of  alt 
other  Gentlemen  who  will  freely  subscribe  their  benevolence 
to  so  Christian  a  work.^ 

"  There  were  then,  proljably,  three  wooden  structures 
for  worship  in  the  Parisli,  corresjiondin,?  to  Middle  Plan- 
tation, Harrop,  and  Marston  parishes,  all  three  of  which 
now  composed  Bruton,  which  stretched  in  an  irregular 
manner  from  York  River  to  James  River,  and  was  about 
ten  miles  scjuare.  We  have  evidence  certainh'  of  the  ex- 
istence of  two  such  churches:  Marston  Church  is  con- 
stantly referred  to  in  the  York  count3'  records  as  being  in 
the  direction  of  the  present  Liglow's  "in  the  Indian  fields 
near  Queen's  Creek;"  and  in  December,  IGT^,  Thomas 
Claiborne  and  Sarah,  his  wife  (who  was  Sarah  Fenn), 
joined  in  a  deed  to  convey'  the  wife's  inheritance  in  the 
old  plantation  of  Ralph  Simkins  at  Middle  Plantation, 
"except  the  two  acres  on  w*^''  the  Parish  Church  of  Bruton 
now  standeth,  formerly  given  133^  Ralph  Simkins  unto  the 
parishioners  of  Bruton." 

On  Nov.  14th,  1678 

*^It  is  ordered  that  ye  Subscriptions  of  free  dona- 
tions for  building  a  brick  Church  be  entered  in  the  Register, 
and  that  Copies  be  given  to  the  Church  hardens  to  procure 
all  other  persons'  free  donations  that  arc  dwellers  in  ye 
parish  and  when  they  have  promised  what  they  can,  that  a 
Yestrie  be  called  for  further  consideration  concerning  the 
said  Church.'' 

Under  the  same  date  appears  the  following: 

^,  lohn  page,  doe  oblige  Myself,  My  heires,  execu- 
tors, to  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid,  Cwenty  pounds  sterling 
to  the  Testry  of  Bruton  parish,  ffor  and  towards  Build- 

iPres't  Lyon  G.  Tyler. 


14^  FMstorical  JVotcs 

xnQ  of  a  Brick  Church  att  Middle  plantation,  for  ye  sd 
pariah,  upon  demand.  Cditness  my  hand  this  14th  of 
November,  1678. 

Hlso  I  do  promise  to  giw  land   sufficient   for   tin 
Church  and  Church  "^nvd.  jf^hn  page 

Witness 

Hbraham  Tinckler,  i 

Richard  Curtcen,     | 

I,  Rowland  jfoncs,  Clerke,  do  oblige  Myself,  My  heircs, 
executors,  to  pay  or  cause  to  be  paid,  five  pounds  sterling, 
to  the  Testry  of  Bniton  parish,  for  and  towards  the 
building  a  brick  Church,  at  the  Middle  plantation,  for  ye 
said  parish,  upon  demand,  as  witness  My  hand,  November 
ye  14, 1678. 
^GQitness 

Richard  Curtcen,    ) 

Hbraham  Tinckler.  J 

^ee,  the  subscribers,  do  hereby  oblige  oui'selves,  our 
hcires,  and  executors,  and  Hdministrators,  to  pay  each  of 
us  five  pounds  Sterling  to  the  Testry,  upon  demand, 
towards  ye  building  of  H  Brick  Church,  on  ye  Middle 
plantation,  for  ye  said  parish,  as  witness  our  hands  this 
14th  of  November,  1678. 

CClitness 

Hbraham  Tinckler,  > 

Richard  Curteen.      X 

^amcs  Besouth,       Martin  Gardner, 
mm,  Hylett,  6ideon  Macon, 

Robert  Cobb,  Cho.  Caylor, 

Robert  Spring,        Christo  Pearson.'* 

On  the  5th  tJune,  1679,  a  full  description  of  the  Church 
to  be  built  is  given,  together  with  articles  of  agreement  be- 
tween the  Testry  and  George  Marable,  the  contractor  of  the 
work,  which  was  to  cost  £350  sterling. 


Rietorical  JSotcs  lo 

Owing  to  some  disagreement  \vc  find  the  following 
entry: 

**mhcrcAQ  Mf.  <3co.  Marablc  hath  arrested  Mr.  George 
Poyndcxtcr  and  Mr,  George  Martin,  (members  of  this 
TestryJ  in  an  action  of  the  case  to  ye  4th  day  of  ye  next 
Generall  Court :  this  Tcstry  do  ordain  and  appoint  Major 
Robert  Beverly  their  lawful!  Httomey  on  the  behalf  of  yc 
said  parish,  to  answer  ye  suit  of  ye  said  George  Marable, 
and  also  to  procure  judgment  for  performance  of  ye  arts  of 
agreement  made  by  ye  said  Mr.  George  Marable,'*  etc. 

On  the  same  occasion  there  is  the  record  of  a  state- 
ment from  Philip  Ludwell,  Esq.,  of  a  legac^v  by  his 
brother  Thomas  Ludwell  of  £20  sterling  and  a  promise 
for  himself  of  £10  stei'ling  towards  the  New  Church  to  be 
built  at  Middle  Plantation.' 

On  the  23d  3une,  1681,  an  agreement  was  made  be- 
tween the  Testry  and  Capt.  francis  page  to  build  the 
Church  at  the  same  place,  but  with  several  variations  from 
Marable's  plan,  for  £150  sterling;  "and  sixty  pounds  of 
good,  sound,  merchantable  sweet  scented  "Cobacco  and 
Cashe,  to  be  levied  of  each  Cytheable  in  the  parish  for  three 
years  together— the  first  payment  to  commence  this  next 
ensuing  crop.^ 

Cburcb  CompIetc^  ant)  H)cMcatct) 

**  ISovember  ye  29th  1683.** 

Che  parish  Church  is  at  length  completed,  and  the  Tes- 
try notice  the  fact  by  the  following;  ^^CQhereas  ye  Brick 
Church  at  Middle  plantation  is  now  finished.  It  is  ordered 
yt  all  ye  Inhabitants  of  yc  said  parish,  do  for  the  future 
repair  thither  to  hear  Divine  Service,  and  yc  ^ord  of  God 
preached;  Hnd  that  Mr.  Rowland  5ones,  Minister,  do  dedi- 
cate ye  said  Church  ye  Sixth  of  "January  next,  being  yc 
epiphany.    Hnd  that  Hlexander  Bonyman,  Clerke,  sett  up 

I  McCabe. 


1(>  RiDtoncal  Notes 

notice  at  yt  MiU,  to  giw  notice  thereof;  Hnd  that  ye  Oma- 
i-ncnts,  etc.,  be  removed  pr  ye  Church  hardens,  atid  also  yt 
yc  old  Comtnumon  Cable  be  removed  to  ye  minister's  bouse 
and  there  remain.'* 

Dr.  McCabe  remarks  that  this  service  of  dedication 
Avas  doubtless  celebrated  by  more  than  the  demonstra- 
tions contemplated  by  canons  and  rubrics,  for  immedi- 
ately following  this  order  is  another  that:  ^*)VIr.  Roger 
'Jones  having  promised  to  furnish  ye  Parish  'with  two 
barrels  of  Car,  each  containing  twenty-eight  gallons,  to  be 
delivered  at  Middle  plantation,  which  being  performed  ye 
parish  is  to  pay  ye  said  Mr.  t^ones  after  ye  rate  of  £12  pr 
barren.'* 

It  is  to  be  remembered  that  these  old  Colonial 
Chiirches  were  never  consecrated  according  to  rubrical 
direction,  as  there  was  in  those  days  no  resident  and  no 
visiting  Bishop  to  perform  the  service  as  ordered  in  the 
Book  of  Common  Prayer. 

On  Oct.  31,1 684,  a  Committee  is  appointed  to  examine 
the  work  done  on  the  New  Church,  and  report  Nov.  1  oth. 
Capt.  -prancis  Page  thereupon  gives  bond  and  security  to 
keep  the  Church  in  good  order  and  repair  for  four  years.' 

On  Mav  10, 1 686,  there  appears  the  following:  "Ctthereas 
there  is  a  proposition  to  the  Testry,  concerning  a  Steeple 
and  a  Ring  of  Bells,  the  Testry  do  request  Mr.  Rowland 
'jfones,  Mr.  Martin  Gardner,  and  f fra  Page,  that  they  make 
a  computation  of  the  charge  of  building  the  Steeple  and  cost 
of  the  bells,  and  retume  the  same  to  ye  next  Testry ;  and 
that  in  yt  mean  time  they  endeavour  to  procure  what  dona- 
tions they  can  from  such  persons  as  may  be  thereto  willing." 

yeee  of  ClcrU  an^  Scitou 

The  fees  of  the  Clerk  at  this  time  were  ordered  to  be 
**  three  pounds  of  Cobacco  for  registering  every  Christening 

I  McCabe. 


Ristoncal  Notes  17 

and  burial  in  yc  parish,    and  yc  Sexton  to  have  ten  of 
Cobacco  for  every  grave  that  be  diggs/' 

"The  last  meeting  of  the  Vestry,  which  the  Revd, 
Rowland  Jones  attended,  was  held  on  the  26th  day  of 
November,  1687.  This  gentleman  attended  for  the  first 
time  a  meeting  of  the  Vestry  Mav  4th,  1675.  On  that 
da3^  *%y  a  General  Consent/^  they  ^^  subscribed  a  request  to 
the  Right  Ronorable  Govemour  for  an  Induction  into  this 
parish  of  jVlf.  Rowland  ^^ones,  minister/^  Inhere  is  no 
evidence  on  the  record  that  he  ever  was  inducted,  and  yet  be 
served  them  for  twelve  years,  and  then  **fell  asleep,^— for  at 
the  next  Testry  Meeting,  '"jfunc  ye  5th,  1 688,^  it  was  entered 
on  the  book  as  follows :' 

*'C3hereas  this  Parish,  by  yc  death  of  ye  Rev.  Mr* 
Rowland  'jfones,  is  destitute  of  a  Minister,  and  Mf .  Barnes 
Sclater  having  offered  to  serve  ye  parish  in  that  quality.  It 
is  therefore  agreed  upon  and  ordered,  that  Mi*,  'jfames 
Sclater  be  paid  after  ye  rate  of  6,000  pounds  of  tobacco  per 
annum  for  six  months,  "^e  time  to  commence  from  ye 
13  th  day  of  May,  1688,  and  for  such  further  time  as  he 
shall  officiate  in  this  parish,  to  be  allowed  after  the  same 
rate  proportionable.  Che  said  Mi*.  Sclater  agreeing  to 
preach  a  Sermon  every  other  Sunday  in  the  afternoon,  if 
weather  permit,  and  hath  promised  to  administer  ye  Sacra- 
ment twice  in  ye  six  months;  and  each  Sunday  that  he 
preach  here  to  perform  other  rites  and  ceremonies  of  the 
Church.'* 

Dr.  McCabe,  upon  the  authorit^^  of  the  Vestry  book, 
states  that  this  arrangement  continued  for  a  very  short 
period,  and  that  on  the  following  July  the  same  order 
was  made  in  favor  of  Rev.  Mr.  Samuel  Eburne,  and  the  same 
requirements  expressed.  On  November  9,  1688,  the  order 
was  reiterated  to  continue  in  force  until  next  Christmas. 
After  this  time  it  was  determined  that  if  Mr.  Eburne 
agreed  to   officiate  for  seven  years,  he  was  to  receive 

I  McCabe. 


18  Rtstorical  Notes 

annually  16,666  pounds  of  tobacco  and  caske,  with  the 
use  of  the  Glebe,  and  all  the  houses  thereon. 

On  November  28, 1688,  the  following  letter  from  Lord 
Howard  Effingham,  Governor  of  the  colony,  was  received 
and  recorded  on  the  Vestry  book : 

^^Gcntlcmcn^ — I  utidcratand  that  upon  my  former  recom- 
mendation to  you  of  Mf .  Samuel  6bume,  you  haw  rcceiwd 
bim^  and  be  bath  continued  to  exercise  bis  functions  in 
preaching  to  vou  and  performing  Divine  Serxnce.  1  have  now 
to  recommend  bim  ye  second  time  to  you,  with  ye  addition 
of  my  own  experience  of  bis  ability  and  true  qualification  in 
all  points;  together  with  bis  exemplary  life  and  conwrsa- 
tion.  Hnd,  therefore,  holding  of  bim  in  the  esteem  of  a  per- 
son who,  to  6od^s  honor  and  your  good  instruction,  is  fitt 
to  be  received,  I  do  desire  be  may  be  by  you  entertained  and 
continued ;  and  that  you  will  give  bim  such  encouragement  as 
you  have  formerly  done  to  persons  so  qualified. 

*^6ffingbam. 
*^8br25,  i688/^ 

a  Silver  Server  (Biven 

^Xbe  seaventb  day  of  Hpril,  1 694. 
Ris  6xcellency  Sir  edmund  Hndros,  Knight,  was  pleased 

to  give  to  Bruton  parish  H  Large  Silver  Server.'* 

"Ht  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  parish  ye  lotb  day  of 

May,  1694, 

Mv*  Samuel  Gbume,  Minister,    M^.  Rugb  jSorwell, 
edmd.  'jfennings,  Gsq.  Mi*.  Renry  Cyler, 

Ml*.  Pbil.  Ludwell,  Mi*,  lohn  Kendall, 

Ml*.  Daniel  parhe.  Mi*.  Ro.  Crawley, 

Ml*,  lobn  Dorman,  Mi*.  Baldwin  Matthews, 

Ml*,  dm.  pinhethman, 

I>is  excellency  having  been  pleased  to  bestow  on  ye  Church  a 

large  silver  server,— X^bc  Testry  therefore  do  desire  Mr. 

ebume,  with  Mi*.  PHil.  Ludwell  and  Mi*.  Baldwin  Matthews, 


IMstortcal  )SotC9  19 

3«  Cburcbwardcnst  to  wait  upon  bis  excellency  to  render 
bim  tbanhs  for  bis  noble  and  pious  gift/' 

The  Church  had  begun  to  show  signs  of  decay,  and  on 
May  6,  1693,  there  is  the  following:  ^^^bereas  ye  inside 
work  on  ye  Cburcb  ougbt  to  be  rectified  and  repaired,  it  is 

tbercfore  ordered  tbat  tbc Cburcbwardens   provide  an 

able  worhman  to  effect  tbe  same,  and  tbat  it  be  done  as  soon 
as  tbey  can/' 

In  1694  tbc  following  is  recorded  in  tbe  Testry-booh: 
^^Cdbercas  scvcrall  Quakers  tbere  are  in  tbis  parisb  tbat  are 
in  arrears  for  tbcir  parisb  dues,— It  is  tbercfore  ordered  tbat 
ye  Cburcb  hardens  do  demand  and  receive  ye  same  tbis  pres- 
ent year/'  Hnd  on  tbe  first  ISfovember,  same  year,  ^^Clpon 
Mr»Bbume's  proposition  to  ye  Testry,to  be  resolved  wbetber 
tbey  would  sustain  bim  for  a  longer  time  after  bis  present 
time  by  agreement  is  expired,  It  is  tbe  opinion  of  tbis  Testry, 
and  accordingly  ordered  tbat  it  sball  be  referred  to  tbe  Testry 
tbat  sball  meet  for  tbis  parisb  upon  Gaster  Tuesday  next/' 
Hnd  on  ''"^e  tbird  day  of  Hprill,  1695,  in  answer  to  Mr. 
ebumc's  proposition,  tbis  Testry  ordered  tbat  no  Minister 
be  bereafter  entertained  but  from  year  to  year,  and  tbat  tbey 
allow  and  pay  bim  only  according  to  law.  Upon  wbicb  Mr. 
ebume  dotb  refuse  to  stay  any  longer  tban  till  next  Cbrist- 
mas."  On  tbe  1 5tb  ^January,  1 696,  ^^It  is  ordered  tbat  Mr. 
8aml.  ebume,  Minister,  be  allowed  two  bundred  pounds  of 
tobacco  and  cashe,  it  being  for  preacbing  four  Sermons  after 
tbe  time  by  agreement  baving  expired."  *Xbe  said  Mr.  Saml. 
ebume  declaring  bis  Intentions  of  leaving  tbis  Country,  ye 
Cburcb  CQardens,  tbercfore,  are  requested  (as  often  as  tbey 
can)  to  procure  a  Minister.  Hnd  when  tbere  sball  be  no  Minis- 
ter, tbe  Clerhe  is  ordered  to  Read  Romilies  and  prayers.  Hnd 
likewise  ye  said  Cburcb  <)Clardens  are  requested  to  wait  upon 
bis  excellency  ye  Governor,  and  pray  bim  tbat  be  would  be 
pleased  to  bave  tbis  parisb  in  bis  tbougbts  wben  any  Minis- 
ters sball  arrive  bere  out  of  Gngland/' 

Mr.  Eburne  was  not  permitted  to  leave  without  a 


20  Rtstortcal  Notes 

resolution  expressing  the  esteem  and  high  regard  of  the 
Vestry  for  him  as  a  man  and  as  a  Minister.  He  had  served 
among  them  for  seven  years,  and  had,  in  those  days  when 
Ministers  were  not  always  what  they  should  have  been, 
won  for  himself  a  good  testimonial  which  is  cordially  ex- 
pressed by  the  Vestry  in  the  following  resolution : 

**Ultf  the  Vestry  of  Bnitoii  parish,  in  Tirgitiia,  whose 
names  are  underwritten,  do  certifie  all  whom  it  may  con- 
eeme,  that  Mr.  Samuel  Gbume,  Minister  of  the  said  parish, 
bath  so  well  bebawd  himself  in  all  bis  Ministeriall  ffunctions 
amongst  us  for  the  space  of  seven  years  and  upwards,  that 
we  do  all  unanimously  desire  bis  further  continuance  with 
us;  but,  by  reason  of  bis  growing  into  years,  be  batb  chosen 
to  go  into  a  warmer  climate. 

Daniel  parhe,  5obn  Kendall, 

edmd.  Jennings,      Rugb  Norwell, 
'](obn  Owens,  pbilip  Ludwell,  "Ifr. 

Robert  Crawley,      lobn  Dormar, 
r)enry  Cyler,  Cimo.  pincketbman.'' 

dm.  pinketbman. 

In  Hpril,  1 697,  Mr.  Cope  Doyle/s  name  appears  as  Min- 
ister, and  "it  is  ordered  that  Mr.  Ooyley  be  entertained  as 
Minister  of  this  parish,  with  ye  yearly  allowance  according 
to  law.'*  On  the  Htb  October,  1698,  ''Whereas  there  arc 
se\>erall  Quakers  in  arrears  for  parish  Levies,  it  is  ordered 
that  the  Church  ^Hardens  do  prosecute  them  to  ye  County 
Court  where  the  debt  is  actionable.^ 

Jamestown  Hban^one^ 

In  1699,  during  the  second  term  of  the  administration 
of  Governor  Francis  Nicholson,  the  seat  of  government 
was  moved  from  Jamestown  to  Williamsburg  "on  account 
of  the  prevalence  of  malaria  and  mosquitos"  at  James- 
town,' and  because  "the  air  was  serene  and  temperate 


I  Rev.  Hugh  Jones— Present  State  of  Virginia. 


rMstoncal  JVotcs  21 

and  crystal  springs  burst  from  dry  and  champaign  soil"' 
around  Williamsburg. 

Old  Jamestown  is  now  lonely  and  deserted.  The  tower 
of  the  Old  Church  stands, 

"Lone  relic  of  the  past !  old  mouldering  pile, 
Where  twines  the  ivy  round  its  ruins  gray." 

The  foundation  walls  of  the  Old  Church  have  been 
unearthed  and  sheltered  in  by  the  "Association  for  the 
Preservation  of  Virginia  Antiquities."  The  pilgrim  stand- 
ing amid  the  sacred  ruins  of  these  old  Churches  has  sug- 
gested to  him  the  beautiful  lines  inscribed  by  some 
unknown  one  upon  the  walls  of  Old  Blandford  Church,  in 
Petersburg,  Virginia :  * 

"Thou  art  crumbling  to  the  dust,  old  pile, 

Thou  art  hastening  to  thy  fall, 
And  around  thee  in  thy  loneliness 

Clings  the  ivy  to  thy  wall. 
The  worshippers  are  scatter'd  now 

Who  met  before  thy  shrine. 
And  silence  reigns  where  anthems  rose 

In  days  of  auld  lang  syne. 

"And  rudely  sighs  the  wandering  wind 

Where  oft,  in  years  gone  by, 
Prayer  rose  from  many  hearts  to  Him, 

The  highest  of  the  high. 
The  tramp  of  many  a  busy  foot 

Which  sought  thy  aisles  is  o'er. 
And  many  a  weary  heart  around 

Is  still'd  for  evermore. 

"How  oft  ambition's  hope  takes  wing: 

How  droop  the  spirits  now: 
We  hear  the  distant  citv's  din: 

The  dead  are  mute  below. 
The  sun  which  shone  upon  their  paths 

Now  gilds  their  lonely  graves  ; 
The  zephyrs  which  once  fann'd  their  brows 

The  grass  above  them  waves. 


I  Hening. 

»  Old  Blandford  Church,  built  in  1737,  is  now  being  restored. 


22  Ristorical  Notes 

"Oh,  could  we  call  the  many  back 

Who've  gather'd  here  in  vain, 
Who  careless  roved  where  we  do  now, 

Who'll  never  meet  again, — 
How  would  our  souls  be  stirr'd 

To  meet  the  earnest  gaze 
Of  the  lovely  and  the  beautiful, 

The  light  of  other  days." 

We  hear  now  no  "distant  city's  din."  James  City 
is  no  more.  "The  air  a  solemn  stillness  holds,'"  broken 
only  by  the  murmur  of  the  waves,  beating  ceaselessly  upon 
the  shore,  which  is  gradually  receding  at  their  touch. 

When  the  Church  at  Jamestown  was  abandoned  the 
Font  and  the  Communion  Service  were  brought  to  Bruton 
Church.  (See  illustrations.)  Parish  tradition  claims  this 
Font  to  be  the  one  still  in  use  in  the  Bruton  Parish 
Church.  The  inscription  on  the  Communion  silver  estab- 
lishes its  identity  beyond  question. 

Xn  1699,  the  Church  again  stands  in  need  of  repairs, 
which  are  ordered.  In  1 700,  Gov.  JVicbolson  requires  a  cer- 
tificate that  Ml**  Doyley  reads  prayers  every  Sunday  at  the 
parish  Church,  which  question  is  answered  by  the  Yestry 
in  the  affirmative.  This  would  indicate  that  the  Governor 
had  not  yet  removed  his  residence  to  Williamsburg,  as  he 
would  otherwise  have  been  acquainted  with  the  regularity 
of  Service  in  the  Parish  Church. 

Che  last  Testry  meeting  attended  by  JMi*.  Doyley  was 
]N[ov.  5,  1691.  f)is  death  is  announced  Oct.  7,  1702.  Mr, 
Solomon  ^heatley  is  invited  to  preach  for  them  preparatory 
to  a  ^^call/'  which  tahes  place  very  soon  thereafter,  (Dec.  13^ 
1702;)  and  again  in  Dec.  1702,  are  repairs  in  brich  and  wood 
ordered  upon  the  Church.  In  1703  a  new  pulpit  is  required^ 
the  pews  ordered  to  be  repaired,  the  floor  raised,  ^c  On 
the  nth  of  November,  of  that  year,  Mr.  ^hateley  (spelt 
<Klbeatley  in  preceding  records)  desires  to  know  whether  be 
is  to  be  retained,  and  on  the  1  otb  of  the  following  f ebruary 
be  is  informed  that  bis  *'time  by  agreement  being  expired 
last  Christmas,  the  Testry  not  tbinhing  it  proper  to  enter- 


IMstorical  Notca  23 

tatti  bim  another  year,  to  yc  end  that  he  should  not  be  put  to 
an  inconvenience,  have  granted  bis  staying  to  officiate  in  ye 
parish  till  ye  25tb  of  March  next,  to  ye  end  he  may  provide 
himself  elsewhere.''  ^ColU  Ludwell  is  requested  by  ye  Tes- 
try  to  write  to  Mr.  Isaac  Grace,  that  arrived  lately  in  ye  ship 
Rartwell,  to  request  him  to  give  the  Parish  a  Sermon  as 
soon  as  conveniently,^  the  result  of  which  application  to  the 
Rev.  Gentleman  is  given  below: 

*^Ht  a  Testry  held  ye  ad  day  of  May,  1704, 
Coll.  Ludwell  acquainted  this  Testry  that  pursuant  to  an 
order  of  Testry,  ye  1  oth  day  of  ffebruary  last,  he  had  desired 
Mr.  Isaac  Grace  to  give  ye  Parish  a  Sermon,  to  ye  end  that 
if  ye  Testry  did  lihe  him,  he  might  be  entertained  as  Minister 
of  this  parish.  I!^o  which  Mr.  Grace  answered  that  his  6x- 
cellency  had  hnowlcdge  of  the  matter,  and  had  forbid  him  to 
be  concerned  with  ye  parish.  Hnd  added  that  he  should  be 
glad  of  so  good  a  parish,  if  he  might  have  it  of  ye  Gover- 
nour's  liheing ;  but  as  the  Governor  had  forbid  him,  he  dare 
not  meddle  with  it.'' 

Confltct  as  to  IRigbt  of  Un^uction 

The  independent  action  of  the  Vestry  in  dismissing 
Rev.  Solomon  Whatele}^  roused  the  Governor  to  opposi- 
tion. A  stubborn  conflict  ensued.  The  Vestry  resolutely 
refused  to  have  a  Minister  inducted  into  the  Parish.  They 
claimed  the  independent  right  to  call  whom  they  pleased, 
and  to  make  terms  suitable  to  themselves  as  to  the  length 
of  service.  The  Governor  claimed  that  under  English  law 
he  had  the  right,  as  a  representative  of  the  Sovereign 
power  of  England,  to  induct  the  clergy.  Both  parties  in 
the  controversy  seem  to  have  been  in  a  somewhat  tem- 
pestuous frame  of  mind.  Rev.  Mr.  Grace  very  strongly 
insinuated  that  the  Vestry,  or  some  one  in  it,  had  not  told 
the  truth.  The  records  would  indicate  that  he  himself 
had  a  very  treacherous  memory  or  a  very  erring  tongue. 
The  correspondence  in  this  case  is  given  in  Appendix  A. 


24  Ristorical  JSotca 

It  resulted  in  the  election  of  Mr.  Whateley,  the  Governor's 
candidate,  as  Minister,  but  with  the  rights  of  the  Vestry 
distinctly  asserted  in  the  call  extended. 

lDc0tri?men 

Of  these  early  Vestrymen  Thomas  Jefferson  said :  "The 
Vestrymen  are  usually  the  most  discreet  farmers,  so  dis- 
tributed through  the  parish  that  every  part  of  it  may  be 
under  the  immediate  eye  of  some  one  of  them.  They  are 
well  acquainted  with  the  details  and  economy  of  private 
life,  and  they  find  sufficient  inducements  to  execute  their 
charge  well,  in  their  philantrophy,  in  the  approbation  of 
their  neighbors,  and  the  distinction  which  it  gives  them."' 

John  Fisk  quotes  the  above  statement  as  showing 
the  difiference  between  the  concentrated  town  government 
of  New  England,  with  the  congregational  Church  as  its 
formative  center,  and  the  county  system  of  government 
in  Virginia,  with  the  Vestrymen  of  the  parish  representing 
the  widely  scattered  population  of  the  country  in  the 
management  of  ecclesiastical  affairs.  Williamsburg,  being 
the  seat  of  the  Colonial  government,  constituted  a  more 
concentrated  population,  and  furnished  the  Church  with 
a  more  representative  body  of  Vestrv^men.  The  country 
constituency  was,  however,  constantly  represented  by 
gentlemen  still  living  upon  their  ancestral  estates. 

The  business  of  these  Colonial  Vestrymen  was  such  as 
to  train  them  for  service  in  a  representative  government. 
They  were  elected  to  represent  the  congregation.  It  was 
their  duty  to  see  that  judicious  measures  were  enacted  by 
the  House  of  Burgesses  for  the  support  of  the  Church,  and 
for  safe -guarding  religion,  and  w^hen  these  laws  were 
passed  it  became  their  duty  to  see  that  they  were  enforced. 
The  parish  poor  were  committed  to  their  oversight  and 
care.    They  were  empowered  to  make  levies  for  this  pur- 


'  Quoted  by  John  Fisk  in  Civil  Government  in  the  United  States, 
p.  60. 


fHstoncal  Notes  25 

pose.  It  was  their  duty  to  apportion  levies  for  the  main- 
tenance of  the  Church,  and  they  were  given  authority, 
under  law,  to  collect  these  taxes,  if  necessary,  by  civil  pro- 
cess. They  thus  acted  as  representatives  of  the  people  in 
the  conduct  of  this  large  and  important  part  of  their 
affairs.  The  position  was  one  of  responsibility  and  honor. 
The  Vestry  Meetings  were  of  vital  importance  to  the  com- 
munity, and  were  not  anticipated  with  any  degree  of 
pleasure  bj^  those  who  had  absented  themselves  from  ser- 
vice without  excuse,  or  who  had  gone  there  and  behaved 
in  an  unseemly  way.  Bishop  Meade  has  shown  that  the 
men  who  served  the  colony  and  commonwealth  in  these 
early  days  were  almost  without  exception  men  who  had 
gained  experience  as  representatives  of  the  people  through 
service  as  parish  vestrymen.  They  were  the  men  to  w^hom 
the  Church,  and  the  state,  naturally  looked  for  leadership, 
and  neither  looked  to  them  in  vain. 

^Ht  a  Tcstry  held  for  Brutoti  pariah,  yc  Ttb  "July,  1705^ 
Mv»  Rcnry  "Cylcr  is  desired  to  procure  Carpenters  to  Visit 
the  Church,  and  to  report  their  opinion  to  ye  next  Testry 
whether  it  can  be  repaired  or  not.  If  it  Can  be  repaired, 
what  stuff  will  be  necessary  for  the  same,  and  what  they 
will  undertake  to  do  it  for/' 

From  the  following  entry  it  would  seem  that  Gover- 
nor Nicholson  desired  to  conciliate  the  Vestry  after  the 
arrogant  display  of  his  authority  as  manifested  in  the  in- 
duction controversy,  but  it  would  also  appear  that  the 
Vestry  still  maintained  their  spirit  of  courage  and  inde- 
pendence : 

^^Ht  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  parish  ye  ytb  Hugust,  1 705,^ 
^F)is  Gxcellency  the  Govemour  sending  to  this  Tes- 
try (by  ye  band  of  Mf.  <Xlm.  Robertson)  Hn  Hltar  Cloth  and 
Cushion  as  a  present  for  ye  use  of  ye  parish,  together  with 
fifty  shillings  for  ye  use  of  ye  poor,  and  desiring  ye  said  gift 
of  fifty  shillings  might  be  recorded  in  the  Testry  booh  as 
being  bis  Gxcellenc/s  usual  quarterly  gift;  and  also  what  bis 


26  IMstoHcal  Notes 

SxcclUncy  bath  formerly  given,  together  with  ati  account 
bow  ye  same  batb  been  dtsposed  of,— I^be  Testry  return  tbie 
answer  by  Mr.  Robertson,  (viz,)  ^e  return  bis  Gxcellency 
many  tbanhs  for  ye  Hltar  Clotb,  and  also  for  ye  fifty  sbiU- 
ings  now  sent— wbicb  we  assure  bis  Gxcellency's  sball  be 
registered ;  but  not  hnowing  it  to  be  bis  excellency's  Con- 
stant Custom,  we  cannot  register  it  as  sucb  witbout 
we  know  att  present  wbat  bis  excellency  batb  given  to 
tbe  poor;  but  we  do  promise  to  examine  tbat  matter 
against  ye  next  Testry,  and  wbat  appears  to  us,  tben  sball 
be  registered.** 

As  to  the  thoroughness  of  this  investigation,  and  its 
result,  we  are  not  told.  His  Excellency  gets  no  further 
credit  for  his  accustomed  benevolence.  He  sends  no  more 
quarterly  offerings. 

On  November  20th,  1710,  the  decease  of  Rev.  Solomon 
Whateley  is  thus  announced  :  ^^Raving  bad  tbe  Misfortune 
at  tbis  present  to  be  witbout  a  Minister,  Bv  ye  deatb  of  ye 
Revd.  Solomon  Whateley,- It  is  ordered  tbat  tbe  Cburcb 
dardens  (for  supplying  tbe  Parisb  witb  Ministers  to  preacb 
weehly,  wbile  tbe  Parisb  continues  vacant)  do  desire  tbe 
severall  Ministers  hereafter  named,  to  preach  in  this  parish 
Cburcb  on  the  severall  Sunday  Mornings  they  shall  appoint, — 
for  which  services  they  shall  be  paid  four  hundred  pounds  of 
"Cobacco  in  tbis  parish  for  each  Sermon.  "Che  Church 
^Hardens  are  ordered  to  wait  on  ye  honorable  tbe  Governor,^ 
witb  ye  proceedings  of  ye  Testry  herein. 

**Xl,ht  Ministers  desired  to  preach  weehly  are,  upon  3d  of 
December,  the  Revd.  Mr.  I^illyard: 

December  lo,  the  Revd.  Mr.  Slaughter,  (Sclater,) 


']fanuary 


17,    " 

**     Mr.  paxton. 

14,    " 

**     Mr.  Commissary, 

31,    " 

"     Mr.  6oodwin; 

7,    " 

**     Mr.  «lallace; 

14,   " 

*'     Mr.  t:aylor.'* 

:  Blair;) 


I  Edmund  Jennings,  who  succeeded  Gov.  Nott,  who  died  in  1706, 
and  is  buried  in  Bruton  Church  Yard. 


Riatoncal  J^otce 


27 


On  Dec.  loth,  ^7iOf  **Ovdcvcd—'ChAt  whereas  there  was 
an  Order  made  the  last  Teatry  for  7  Ministers  to  preach  on 
certain  Sundays^  wherein  the  Re\>d«  Barnes  Sclater  was  one;— 
It  is  ordered  by  this  Meeting  that  the  said  Sclater  be  left 
out  of  the  number^  and  that  the  Church  CQardens  give  notice 
to  the  Rev.  Hrthur  Cillyard  to  preach  December  10th,  and 
the  rest  in  their  order.*' 


Commissary?  Blair,  flDinistcr 

The  Bishop  of  London,  who  had 
jurisdiction  over  the  Colony  of  Vir- 
ginia, induced  Rev.  Dr.  James  Blair 
to  come  to  Virginia  as  a  mission- 
ary in  1685.  In  1689  he  v^ras  ap- 
pointed Commissary  of  the  Bishop, 
and  commissioned,  as  his  repre- 
sentative, to  make  visitations  in 
territory  assigned,  deliver  charges, 
inspect  the  churches,  and,  when 
necessary,  administer  discipline. 
Not  being  a  Bishop,  he,  of  course, 
could  not  Confirm,  or  administer 
Ordination,or  consecrate  churches. 
He  held  this  office,  and  discharged 
its  functions,  together  with  his  other  ministerial  and  edu- 
cational duties,  for  fifty-three  years.  On  December  10th, 
1710,  he  was  elected  Minister  of  Bruton  Church,  which 
position  he  held  until  his  death  in  1742.  The  Vestry  Book 
contained  the  following  records  relating  to  his  election 
and  ministry:  December  10th,  1710,  '^Upon  the  reading  of 
the  Rcvd.  Benjamin  Goodwin  and  the  Rcvd.  5ames  Blair's 
letters^  wherein  they  set  forth  their  desire  to  be  admitted 
Ministers  of  Bruton  Parish^  now  vacant  by  the  Death 
of  the  Rex>d.  Solomon  CHhateley;— Che  Matter  being  debated, 
the  Question  was  putt  whether  it  should  be  decided  by 
Tote. 


From  portrait  in  the  library  of 
William  and  Mary  College. 


28  r>i9toncal  Notes 

**Rc9olv€d  tti  the  affirmative— present  the  Ronble.  6dwd. 
Jennings.  Cdbereupon  the  Meeting  proceeded  to  the  choice 
of  a  Minister  for  Bruton  parish,  and  by  the  Majority  of 
Totes  the  Revd*  Sanies  Blair  was  elected  Minister  thereof. 

'^Ordered,  Che  Church  Cdardens  acquaint  yc  Reverend 
Barnes  Blair,  that  upon  reading  his  letter,  wherein  was  Sett 
forth  his  desire  to  be  their  Minister,  Che  Testry  proceeded 
to  the  consideration  thereof,  and  accordingly  made  choice  of 
him  to  be  their  Minister  for  the  next  ensuing  year.— Ordered, 
that  the  Church  hardens  appoint  a  Testry  as  soon  as  pos- 
sible to  entertain  him  accordingly.^' 

Dr.  Blair's  letter  to  the  Vestry  is  as  follows : 

December  4th,  1710. 
"Gentlemen: 

"Che  great  importance  of  yt  deliberation  ye  are 
now  upon,  how  to  supply  this  parish  with  a  Minister  who 
shall  discharge  his  duty  in  so  eminent  a  Station  as  becomes 
him  both  for  Life  and  Doctrine,  together  with  the  happiness 
I  enjoy  in  your  I^eyborhood  and  acquaintance;  and  the  great 
conveniency  of  my  habitation  in  the  heart  of  your  parish, 
with  sewral  assurances  from  persons  of  eminent  note  that 
such  a  proffer  may  be  acceptable.  Induce  me  to  take  this 
Opportunity  of  acquainting  '^ou  that  if  My  Service  may  be 
approved  in  that  Station,  ye  shall  need  to  look  noe  farther 
for  a  Minister. 

*^t  is  true,  I  have  soe  many  obligations  to  ye  parish  of 
'5ames  City,  that  nothing  but  the  urgent  ]Vecessity  of  health, 
often  impaired  by  such  long  Winter  tJoumeys,  and  a  fear  that 
as  age  and  Infirmities  increase,  I  shall  not  be  able  to  attend 
that  Service  (being  at  such  a  distance)  so  punctually  as  I 
have  hitherto  done,  could  have  induced  me  to  entertain  any- 
thing as  of  leaving  them.  If  ye  Shall  think  fitt  to  approve 
of  this  My  proposal,  I  hope  ye  shall  have  noe  occasion  to  re- 
pent your  choice,  and  that  I  may  have  further  opportunities 
by  my  diligence  in  My  Ministeriall  functions  among  you  to 
shew  how  ready  I  am  to  approve  Myself. 


I>t9toncal  Notes  29 

6cntlctTicti,  '^^our  moot  faitbfuU  bumble  ecrvt.  to  my 
parisbioncrs, 

lames  Blair, 
Tcra  Copia  Ceste 

C.  lachson,  Clerh  Teetry/' 

On  tbc  28tb  of  December^  1710,  ^^IVIi*,  f)ugb  Norwell  re- 
ported^ tbat  pursuant  to  an  order  made  under  last  Testry, 
be  bad  acquainted  tbe  Revd,  ']fames  Blair^  tbat  the  Gentlemen 
of  tbe  Testry  bad  considered  bis  Letter,  and,  according  to 
tbe  Desire  tbereof ,  bad  made  cboice  of  bim  to  be  tbeir  Minis- 
ter, and  tbat  tbis  Testry  was  called  to  treat  witb  bim. 

^Xbe  Revd.  ^ames  Blair  being  present,  it  was  mutually 
agreed  tbat  tbe  said  'lames  Blair  be  entertained  as  Minister 
of  Bruton  parisb,  for  tbe  tear  next  ensuing  tbe  date/' 

The  following  notes,  relative  to  the  ministry  and  w^ork 
of  Commissary  Blair,  were  recorded  in  the  old  Vestry 
book  under  the  dates  indicated  : 

On  tbe  6tb  luly,  1721,  Mf*  Commissary  Blair  notifies 
tbc  Testry  tbat  ^*bc  is  obliged  to  repair  for  England  upon  an 
urgent  occasion ;  and  tbat  be  intends  to  return  bitber  again 
as  soon  as  bis  affairs  will  permit,  and  proposing  tbat  during 
bis  absence  tbc  best  care  sball  be  taken  for  a  supply  of  Minis- 
ters to  execute  office  in  tbis  parisb,  and  also  agreeing  to  de- 
mand no  salary  in  tbat  time ;  and  tbereupon  desiring  tbat 
tbe  Testry  will  not  make  application  for  any  otber  Incum- 
bent to  tbe  cure  of  tbis  parisb,  for  tbe  space  of  twelve 
montbs,''  &c.  &c. 

On  tbe  23d  Nov.,  1722,  ^Xbe  Rev.  Mi*.  Commissary 
Blair''  is  again  at  bis  post  at  tbe  Testry  Meeting. 

On  tbe  i2tb  December,  1725,  '^Lewis  Burwell,  6ent., 
being  elected  Testryman  for  tbis  parisb,  tbis  day  took  tbe 
Oatb  appointed  by  act  of  parliament  to  be  taken  instead  of 
tbc  Oatbs  of  Hllegiance  and  Supremacy,  tbe  Hbjuration 
Oatb,  Subscribed  tbe  test,  and  also  subscribed  to  be  Con- 
formable to  tbe  Doctrine  and  Discipline  of  tbe  Cburcb  of 
engbnd.'' 


30  rKstorical  IVotca 

"Ht  a  Tcstry  bcW  for  Bniton  pariah,  the  22  day  of 
5utic,  1 726,  r^hc  Rcvd*  '^amca  Blair,  Minister  of  this  par- 
iah, acquainting  the  Teatry  that  at  the  rcqueat  of  the  6over- 
nora  of  thia  College  he  haa  undertaken  a  To>^ge  for  Gngland, 
in  Order  to  Obtain  a  r^ranafer,  and  to  JVegotiate  other  im- 
portant Hffaira  of  the  College;  to  the  end  the  good  and  pioua 
deaign  of  that  building,  ao  uaefull  and  beneficial  to  thia 
Country,  may  be  apeedily  accompliahcd,  and  preaenting  the 
Teatry  a  liat  of  Miniatera  which  he  propoaea  ahall  officiate 
in  hia  abaence,— H^he  aame  waa  accordingly  agreed  to  and  ac- 
cepted. 'Che  aaid  Mr.  Blair  la>nng  before  the  Yeatry  an 
account  of  the  poor^a  Money,  whereby  it  appeara  that  the 
Sum  of  £26  113.  1  d.  ia  due  to  the  poor'a  bagr-Ordered  that 
the  aame  be  paid  into  the  handa  of  Mi*,  ^ohn  Blair,  to  be 
diapoaed  of  aa  the  Church  ^ardena  and  Teatrymen  ahall 
appoint.*' 

On  the  16th  day  of  November,  1727,  Mi*.  Commiasary 
Blair  ia  in  hia  place  again  in  Teatry  meeting. 


The  Jamestown  Baptismal  Font. 


The  Silver-Goi.o  Communion  Service, 

KNOWN  AS  THE   "  QuEEN   ANNE  SET." 


XTbe  Cburcb  of  1715 


ETURNING  to  the  historical  continuity  of  the 
old  Vestry  book,  we  find  the  following  notes 
relative  to  the  Church  of  1715,  which  was 
built  during  the  ministry  of  Revd.  Mr,  Blair, 
upon  the  foundation  of  the  Church  of  1683. 
This  is  the  building  still  in  use. 

''Htt  a  Tcstry  held  the  ffirat  day  of  Octo- 
ber, 1706,  Cbc  Tcstry  cotisidmng  yc  great 
charge  ye  parish  bath  been  at  for  ye  repairing 
of  ye  Cburcb,  and  bow  bad  a  condition  it 
is  still  in,— Ordered,  that  twenty  thousand 
pounds  of  Cobacco  be  lexned  this  year  for  and 
towards  building  of  a  new  Cburcb/^ 

^'November  ye  1 4,  1 706.  Whereas  there  is  Icvyed  tbirty- 
one  pound  of  Cobacco  per  pole  for  and  towards  ye  building 
H  New  Church,  Hny  of  ye  parishioners  ba\>c  hereby  ye  liberty 
to  pay  ye  same  in  money  after  ye  rate  of  ten  shillings  pr  cwt : 
when  other  parish  dues  are  collected/* 

*^Htt  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  parish,  December  1  o,  1 71  o, 
present,  Ron  Gdmd.  3f€"nt"S9»  6sq.^ 
(Rere  follow  the  names  of  the  Testry,) 
*^Clpon  the  representation  of  the  Ron.  Sdmd.  Jennings 
that  Mv»  '!Jobn  Rolloway  and  himself  had  discoursed  upon 
the  business  concerning  the  appropriating  a  sum  of  money 
towards  the  building  a  Church  in  Bruton  parish,  and  that 
Mr.  lobn  Rolloway  was  pleased  to  say  Re  did  believe  be 
could  pre\>ail  with  the  Rouse  (of  Burgesses)  to  appropriate 
£200  for  that  use,  and  that  the  Rouse  was  desirous  the  gen- 
tlemen of  the  Testry  should  give  them  a  meeting  on  this  day, 
which  was  the  occasion  of  calling  this  Testry  to  consider 
what  might  be  necessary  concerning  the  same,— 


32  Ristorical  Notes 

*^Ordcrcd^  Chat  the  Cburcb  hardens  goc  and  acquaint 
the  F>ou9c  of  Burgc88C9^  that  the  6cntlcnicn  of  the  Ycstry 
were  ready  to  wait  upon  them  when  they  should  appoint/^ 

^'Raxnng  Delivered  their  Message,  they  returned  and  ac- 
quainted this  Meeting  that  the  Rouse  had  appointed  Mr.^ohn 
RoUoway,  Mr.  Nicholas  Mcrriwether,  and  Mr.  Robert  Boil- 
ing, to  wait  upon  the  Testry  and  hear  their  proposals.^ 

^Xhen  this  Meeting  proceeded  to  consider  what  sume  of 
Money  and  what  Dimentions  might  be  necessary  for  the 
building  a  Church  to  serve  their  own  paritioners,  provided 
the  Rouse  of  Burgesses  would  not  contribute  towards  the 
Building  thereof.  Che  matter  being  debated  it  was  Resolved, 
that  a  Church  of  ye  same  dimentions  of  ye  old  church  will 
be  large  enough,  and  that  £500  would  be  sufficient  for  the 
building  thereof.^ 

^*Mr.  Ino.  RoUoway,  Mr.  Robert  Boiling  and  Mr.  Nicho- 
las Merriwether,  delivered  a  Message  (from  the  Rouse  of 
Burgesses)  to  this  effect,  that  the  Rouse  was  willing  to  ap- 
propnatc  a  Sufficient  sume  of  Money  for  the  building  pews 
for  the  6ovemr.,  Council  and  Rouse  of  Burgesses;  IThey 
further  added  they  were  to  enquire  what  Dimentions  were 
necessary  for  a  Church  for  the  parish,  and  what  sume  of 
money  would  be  sufficient  for  the  Building  the  same;— 
<Xlhereupon  the  Ronble.  6dwd.  "pfennings  informed  them  the 
Gentlemen  of  the  Testry  were  of  opinion  a  Church  of  the 
same  Dimentions  of  the  Old  Church  would  be  large  enough, 
and  that  £500  would  be  sufficient  for  the  building  the  same.'* 

^^t^he  Gentlemen  of  the  Testry  further  added,  li^hey  did 
not  in  the  least  doubt  but  the  Rouse  of  Burgesses  would 
shew  their  pious  and  Generous  spirits  by  their  Liberall  Do- 
nations towards  6oe  necessary  and  good  a  worhe ;  and  that 
they  could  assure  them  to  the  best  of  their  judgments  they 
would  appropriate  the  same  according  to  the  true  Intent 
thereof.^ 

At  the  same  meeting  it  was  ^Ordered,  "Chat  whoever 
shall  be  admitted  to  serve  as  Minister  in  this  parish,  shall 
have  no  Induction.** 


F)i9toncal  Notes  33 


plan  Submitted  by  Rouble.  Hlexr.  SpottawoocL 

**'fit  a  Meeting  of  the  Tcstry,  held  for  ye  Parish  of  Bru- 
ton^  March  ist,  1711,  present,  ^fames  Blair,  Clerh, 
(F>ere  follow  the  names  of  the  Vestrymen.) 

*'Clpon  ye  Information  of  lames  Blair,  Clerh,  that  he 
had  rcceiwd  from  the  Ronble.  Hlexr.  Spottswood,  a  platt  or 
draught  of  a  Church,  (whose  length  75  foot,  and  bredth  28 
foot  in  the  clear,  with  two  wings  on  each  side,  whose  width 
is  22  foot,)  which  he  Laid  before  the  Testry  for  approba- 
tion—Hdding  further,  that  ye  Ronble.  ye  Governor  proposed 
to  the  Testry  to  build  only  53  of  the  75  foot,  and  that  he 
would  tahe  care  for  the  remaining  part. 

^Xhe  Testry  proceeded  to  the  immediate  consideration 
of  the  commodiousness  and  conveniency  of  the  said  platt 
or  Draught:  which  is  approved  of. 

*^It  being  moved  that  the  charge  of  such  part  be  com- 
puted, the  Testry  not  knowing  what  scantlings  were  suitable 
for  such  a  building,  nor  the  number  of  brichs  the  said  worhe 
would  tahe— is  referred. 

'^Ordered,  Xl^hat  Christo.  "jfackson,  Clarke,  be  impowered 
to  agree  with  some  skillful  workman,  to  lay  down  the  said 
scantlings:  also  to  calculate  the  number  of  bricks  sufficient 
for  a  wall  of  56  foot  long,  28  foot  wide,  and  23  foot  high 
above  ground,  and  report  the  same  to  the  next  Testry,  in  or- 
der to  a  full  consideration  thereof. 

"Ordered,  therefore,  that  Capt.  Frederick  ^ones  acquaint 
the  F)onblc.  Hlexr.  Spottswood  with  the  proceedings  of  the 
Testry  concerning  his  draught. 

*Xhe  Revd.  3ames  Blair  moving  that  new  prayer-books 
for  the  Minister  and  Clcrke  be  sent  for,— Ordered,  that  new 
ones  be  sent  for,  and  that  ye  Church  hardens  request  the 
assistance  of  ye  Ronble,  Gdmd.  pfennings  in  buying  ye 
same.^ 

On  the  15th  March,  1711,  the  proposals  of  Mr.  lohn 
Cillet  and  Mf^  Rcnry  Cary,  were  submitted  to  the  Testry, 


34  f>istorical  Noted 

for  fumisbtng  the  materials  with  which  to  build  the  Chui'ch, 
but  both  being  considered  entirely  too  exorbitant,  ^^^here- 
upon  yc  Honorable  Hlex'r  Spottswood  proposed  together 
with  ye  Ron.  6dmund  Jennings,  to  deliver  in  place  as  many 
brichs  as  shall  be  thought  necessary  in  building  ye  Church, 
at  ye  rate  of  1 5s.  per  thousand,  in  order  to  beat  down  ye  ex- 
travagant prices  of  workmen,  provided  some  of  yc  Testry 
would  undertahe  other  parts/'  On  the  17th  )Vov.  171 1,  the 
contractor  for  the  building  the  Church,  all  preliminaries  be- 
ing settled,  is  allowed  till  *'tbc  15  October,  1714,  for  building 
the  same.^  X^he  contractor  was  'Barnes  Mows,  and  the 
deeds  were  at  the  same  Testry,  ordered  to  be  dravsn)  up  by 
Stephen  t3hompson. 

On  the  28th  March,  1717  a  new  draught  of  the  Church 
is  ordered. 

In  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Volume  1,  Page 
174,  under  date  December,  1713.  "The  Dhnenvsions  of  ye 
two  Wings  of  Bruton  Parish  Church,  together  ^Auth  ye 
Rates  of  ye  Materials  and  Workmanship  therein  required 
is  given,"  which  has  been  copied  to  show  the  Dimen- 
sions and  the  cost  of  Materials  and  Workmanship  at  this 
date. 

DIMENSIONS 

The  inside  Breadth  of  each  Wing,  or  the  distance 

from  ye  East  wall  to  ye  West  wall,  must  be. ...22  Foot 
The  inside  Length  of  each  Wing,  or  j'e  Distance 
from  ye  North  wall  to  ye  Body  of  ye  Church 

must  be 19  F 

The  Breadth  of  ye  East  &  West  Window^s 6  F 

The  Breadth  of  ye  North  &  South  Windows 7  F 

The  Breadth  of  ye  North  &  South  Doors 5  F 

The  Thickness  of  ye  Walls  below  ye  Water  Table  3  Bricks, 

&  above  ye  same  2  Bricks  length. 
The  Height  of  ye  Walls  &  of  ye  Ceiling  to  be  ye  same  with 

those  of  ye  Body  of  ye  Church. 
The  Rooff  to  rise  in  proportion  to  ye  Breadth  that  it 
spans. 


f)i9torical  Notes 


MATERIALS 

The  Bricks  are  to  be  rated  at  Seventeen  Shills  pr: 
Thousand. 

The  Lime  at  Six  pence  pr :  Bushel. 

The  Sand  at  Eighteen  pence  pr:  Load, 

The  Scantlines  at  £4  10  p:  Thousand, 

The  Shingles  at  12^  6'^  pr:  Thous. 

The  whole  Scaffolding  Stuff,  Chords  &  Plank  at  3 
Pounds. 

WORKMANSHIP 

The  Laying  of  ye  Bricks,  including  ye  Labourers  work, 
shall  be  rated  at  7^  6^  pr:  Thousand. 

The  framing,  raising  and  covering  ye  Roof  at  IS^'^  6<* 
p:  Square. 

The  framing  and  Raising  ye  Floor  at  10^^  pr :  Sciuare. 

The  Working  and  Setting  ye  Eves  at  20^^  pr:  foot. 

The  Rubbing,  Cutting,  &  Setting  ye  Window  Arches 
at  5^^^  pr:  Arch. 

The  Rubbing  and  Cutting  ye  Foot  lesses  at  one  penny 
pr :  foot. 

The  Rubbing  ye  Returns  at  2^^  pr:  hundred. 

The  framing  &  Setting  3'e  Window  &  Door  Cases  at 
10^^  each. 

On  the  1  itb  December^  1712,  a  sutn  of  money,  £10  ater- 
Ung,  in  the  bands  of  Mr.  Ricbavd  Kendall,  being  a  legacy 
from  ]VIf 3.  Catbanne  Bcsoutb,  is  ordered  to  be  paid  over  to 
tbc  Rcvd-  'James  Blain  for  a  "Suitable  piece  of  plate  of  ye 
same  value,  for  the  use  of  Bruton  parish,  with  this  inscrip- 
tion upon  it— (Xc  6ift  of  Mt^s.  Catharine  Besoutb.'') 

December  2d,  1715.  Ht  length  the  new  Church  is  fin- 
ished, or  nearly  so. 

Following  this  there  are  brief  notes  of  interest.  )Sov. 
16th,  1716.  ^Ordered  that  the  Church  hardens  dispose  of 
all  the  materials  belonging  to  the  Old  Chuixh,  except  the 
brichs/'    Che  new  Church  is  shingled  in  1717. 


36  Ristoncal  )Srotc& 

December,  17,  1720.  Mr.  lobn  RoUoway  ts  'Recom- 
mended to  send  for  a  Church  Bible  and  two  Common 
prayer  Booha,  for  the  uee  of  the  Church.^ 

In  1724  Rev.  James  Blair,  reported  to  the  Bishop  of 
London,  that  the  Church  was  provided  with  "A  great 
Bible,  2  common  prayer  books,  the  Homilies,  canons,  pul- 
pit Cloths,  altar  and  altar  piece.  Font,  Cushions,  surplice, 
bell,  etc.,'^  and  that  "There  were  one  hundred  and  ten 
families,  and  fifty  communicants  in  the  Parish."  He  al.so 
stated  that  at  that  time  there  were  three  hundred  acres 
of  Glebe  land  belonging  to  the  Parish,  and  that  the  Parish 
was  about  ten  miles  square.' 

On  the  t5th  day  of  ^une,  1728,  crdcr  19  gt\>en  for  tear- 
ing down  the  ceiling  of  the  Church  and  putting  up  a  new  one. 

'^Ht  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  pariah  the  1 2  day  of  ]Vov- 
ember,  i7^9t  '!John  Randolph,  Gsq.,  (hnighted  shortly  after,) 
haxnng  been  elected  a  Testryman,  this  day  took  and  Sub- 
scribed the  Oaths  appointed  by  Law  to  F>is  Majesty's  person 
and  Government,  &c/'^ 

]Vov.  6,  1740,  the  Testry  ordered  Church  and  Church- 
yard to  be  repaired.  |Vo\».  14, 1742,  ^'Chc  Church  Bible  given 
to  the  parish  by  Capt.  Matthews,  being  in  danger  of  spoiling 
by  lying  in  the  chest,  Mr.  Chomas  Cobbs  agrees  to  tahc  it, 
and  to  send  for  another  when  the  same  shall  be  required.^' 

On  the  3d  Day  of  Oecem.,  1742,  "Che  Vestry  Resolved 
on  the  following  articles^  in  relation  to  the  repairs  of  the 
Church: 

*^Che  brich  Ornaments  of  the  Gavel  ends  to  be  tahen 
down,  and  finished  with  wood,  answering  the  rest.  Che 
whole  roof  to  be  Covered.  Che  whole  to  be  new  pewed,  and 
the  pulpit  placed  in  the  South  Bast  Conwr.  Che  Church 
Xard  to  be  repaired  for  the  present  it:*  the  Cheapest  Manner.'* 

1  Perry,  page  300. 

2  In  June,  1903,  a  beautiful  marble  tablet  was  unveiled  in  the 
Chapel  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  to  replace  a  similar  tablet 
which  had  been  erected  to  the  memory  of  Sir  John  Randolph,  which 
was  destroyed  when  the  College  was  burned. 


I^tstoncal  Notes  37 

Deatb  of  Commtssarip  Blatr  an^  leiectton  of 
1Rev^.  Zboe.  Davoson 

^t  a  Tcstry  bcW  the  6tb  day  of  May,  1743,  the  sad 
news  is  officially  aimouncedt  that  the  Rev.  Mi*»  Cotmnissary 
Blair  is  no  more*  And  there  was  entered  the  following 
note :  Hnd  ^CClhercas  by  tbe  Decease  of  tbe  Revd.  Mr.  Com- 
missary Blair,'*  (wbo  bad  served  tbe  Cburcb  of  Bniton 
parisb  for  tbe  space  of  tbirty-two  'Years  as  its  Minister; 
CQilliam  and  Mary  College  as  its  president  for  nearly  fifty 
years,  and  as  Commissary  for  fifty-tbree  years,)  late  Minis- 
ter of  tbis  parisb,  tbe  Cure  is  now  Tacant.  Hnd  <Slbereas 
tbe  Rev.  Mr.  Cbomas  Dawson  bas  for  some  time  officiated 
for  f^r.  Commissary,  in  wbicb  be  batb  acquitted  bimself  to 
tbe  Universal  good  liking  of  tbis  parisb,  and  also  producing 
a  letter  from  tbe  Ronble*  tbe  Governor,  strongly  recommend- 
ing bim  to  tbe  Cboice  of  tbe  Testry,  tbcy  do  therefore  unani- 
mously elect  tbe  said  Mr.  Chomas  Dawson  Minister  of  tbis 
parish.** 

On  the  9tb  May,  1 744,  it  is  Ordered  that  a  foundation 
of  brickwork  be  laid  round  tbe  Isle  to  receive  tbe  floor;  and 
tbe  Isle  be  new  layd  with  tbe  same  stone,  tbe  Church  to  be 
New  CQbitcwasbed,  and  p^aistcring  to  be  repaired  where 
wanting.  Ordered  likewise,  that  tbe  pews  be  painted  three 
times  in  Oile,  and  the  South  Gallery  to  be  extended  as  far  as 
the  Comer.** 

Cburcb  jenlaree^  anb  ©rgan  Secure^ 

**lit  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  parish,  Hugust  22,  1744, 
"Resolved,  that  a  petition  be  drawn  to  be  preferred  to  tbe 
next  General  Hssembly  to  request  them  to  contribute  to- 
wards the  repairs  of  tbe  two  wings  of  tbe  Church,  which 
were  formerly  built  at  tbe  expense  of  tbe  public  Hnd  that 
tbcy  will  be  pleased  to  take  into  their  Consideration,  whether 
an  organ,  to  be  bought  by  the  public  and  Hppropriated  for 


38  Ristortcal  IHotca 

the  U9C  of  the  Church  of  the  parish  where  the  ©ovemor  re- 
etdes  and  the  General  Hssembly  and  the  Courts  are  held. 
May  not  be  Ornamental  and  useful  in  the  Divine  8er\nce; 
and  that  Mi*.  Dawson,  Mr.  OTray,  Mr.  (3ohn)  Blair,  Mr. 
Rarmer  and  Mi*.  Slaller  prepare  the  same.''  After  eight 
years  delay,  (according  to  Hening,)  John  Blair,  Philip 
Ludwell,  Armisted  Burwell,  James  Power,  and  Benjamin 
Powell  were  appointed  by  the  Assembly  a  committee 
to  provide  material  for  enlarging  the  Church  and  for 
purchasing  and  setting  up  an  organ  in  the  loft  to  cost 
£200. 

On  the  15th  day  of  March,  1750-1,  "Che  Ronble.  "^fohn 
Blair,  Coll:  Lewis  Burwell,  and  Mr.  ^ohn  F)olt,  or  any  two 
of  thetn,  are  impowered  to  treat  with  workmen  for  an  addi- 
tion to  the  Church,  and  to  lay  their  proposals  before  the 
Testry  in  order  for  their  agreement  thereto.'' 

Pursuant  to  these  orders,  and  the  action  of  the  House 
of  Burgesses,  the  Church  doubtless  assumed  its  present 
proportions  of  100  feet  long,  28  feet  wide,  the  wings  being 
reduced  from  19  feet  to  14^2  feet  in  length.'  If  the  Church 
was  originally  built  according  to  the  first  draft  of  Alex. 
Spottswood,  the  length  of  the  West  body,  or  nave,  was 

39  feet,  the  width  of  the  transepts  was  22  feet,  and  the 
length  of  the  chancel  end  was  14  feet,  making  the  total 
length  75  feet.  An  addition  of  25  feet  to  the  East,  or 
chancel  end  of  the  building,  would  have  made  it  39  feet, 
which  is  its  present  length,  corresponding  to  the  length 
of  the  nave,  and  making  the  entire  length  of  the  building 
100  feet.  This  25  feet  was  either  added  by  the  order  of 
1750  or  by  the  altered  draft  of  1712.  No  addition  has 
has  been  made  to  the  West  end  of  the  Church.  The  men- 
tion of  the  galleries  located  there  proves  this. 

On  Hugust  11, 1747,  **Peyton  Randolph,  6sq.,  is  chosen 
a  Vestrjrman." 

1  Tyler. 


IMstorical  )Vot<9  39 

Cburcb  jparb  Mall  »utlt 

December  14,  1749,  the  Testry  agree  with  Mr.  6nKry 
f^ughes  to  build  a  brick  wall  around  the  Churchyard  for 
£290.     5wlv  Tthf  1752,  *^6iiiery  r>ughe8  having  failed  to 

perform  his  agreement^ in  building  the  brich  wall  around 

the  Church,  8amuel  8purr  agrees  to  do  the  same  for  £320, 
and  gives  bond  and  security  to  finish  the  worh  by  Octo- 
ber, 1754. 

7une  18,  1754,  M**.  Robt.  Carter  Nicholas  is  chosen  a 
Testryman. 

Vhc  name  of  George  Qlythe,  the  distinguished  jurist  and 
statesman,  the  early  patron  of  Fknry  Clay,)  appears  for  the 
first  time  on  the  record  as  Testrjmian  and  Churchwarden, 
20th  November,  1760;  and  on  the  9th  day  of  february,  1761, 
**Xrhe  Reverend  Sim.  "^ates  is  Unanimously  Chosen  Minister 
of  this  parish  in  the  Room  of  the  Revd.  Commissary 
Chomas  Dawson,  Dec'd.'' 

On  the  29th  day  of  November,  1763,  Rev.  Mr.  t^tes  at- 
tended the  last  Testry  meeting,  and  on  the  5th  day  of  Oc- 
tober, 1764,  his  decease  is  recorded  In  the  accounts  of  the 
parish,  where  there  stands  an  amount  to  his  credit  of  to- 
bacco, 1 7,280  lbs.  Nov.  7th,  1 764,  Rev.  Mr.  ^ames  Rorrochs, 
Commissary,  is  chosen  as  the  Minister  of  the  Parish. 

Belfry  Built 

On  October  6,  1 768,  ^Che  Revd.  Mr.  ^^mes  Rorrocks, 
Peyton  Randolph,  6sq.,  Chomas  Gverard,  6sq.,  Robert 
Carter  Nicholas,  Gsq.,  and  the  Church  hardens,  Mr.  "Ifohn 
pierce  and  Mi*.  Cdm.  Baton,  or  any  four  of  them,  are  ap- 
pointed a  Committee  to  receive  proposals  for  building  a 
belfry  to  the  Church.'' 

On  the  14th  September,  1769,  the  Testry,  consisting  of 
the  names  of  men  whose  memory  the  Church  in  Virginia,  and 
the  State  at  large  will  not  forget,— such  as  "^ohn  Blair,  Ben- 


40  IMstoHcal  IHotea 

jamin  ^daller,  Lewie  Burwcll,  OTm.  Graves,  Robert  Carter 
Ntcholas,  tn^omae  Gverard,  ©eorge  CHytbe,  frecL  Bryan,  and 
ColL  ^obn  prentis,  ''agreed  witb  Benjamin  Powell  to  build 
a  Steeple  and  repair  the  Cburcb  for  £410.— £150  to  be  paid 
this  present  '^ear,  £1 30  the  Next  tear,  and  £1 30  in  the  Y^^ 
1771.  f)e  is  to  have  the  Old  Bell,  and  the  Materials  of  the 
old  Steeple. 

This  order  relating  to  the  building  of  a  new  Steeple 
does  not  fix  the  date  of  the  Old  Tower  upon  which  the  old 
Steeple  referred  to  stood.  The  Church  Tower  is  not 
structually  the  same  as  the  Church,  and  has  the  appear- 
ance of  being  older. 


Some  ®lb  IDestr^  ©rbers 


CATTERED  through  the  old  Vestry  Book  were 
a  number  of  orders  of  special  purport  which 
were  given  under  different  dates,  and  with 
reference  to  the  subject  indicated  by  the 
headings  under  which  they  have  been  ar- 
ranged here  for  convenient  reference. 

flDlnister's  Salary 

Ninth  of  lum,  1682,  ""Ordered  that  Mr. 

Rowland  lows,  Mititatcr,  for  the  future  shall 

be  paid  annually  ye  Sum  of  Sixteen  thousand 

six  hundred  and  sixty-six  pounds  of  Cobacco 

and  Cashe.    Hny  former  order  of  Vestry  to  the  contrary  not- 

vpithstanding.^    Here  follow  the  names  and  the  sentence, 

tester,  Hlex.  Bonnyman.       ""Veritas  non  est  dubitanda." 

Cburcb  attenbancc 

lune  9th,  1 682.  """Che  Vestry  of  this  parish  taheing 
into  consideration  that  many  and  di\>ers  of  the  inhabitants 
have  been  negligent  in  comeing  to  Church,  tending  to  ye  dis- 
honor of  God  and  the  contempt  of  Government,  therefore 
the  said  Vestry  have  now  ordered,  Chat  such  person  or  per- 
sons inhabiting  in  this  parish,  as  shall  be  negligent  herein, 
shall  be  presented  by  ye  Church  ^Hardens  to  ye  Court,  and 
then  be  proceeded  with  according  to  Law,  and  that  publica- 
tion hereof  be  made  pr  ye  Clerhe  at  both  Churches/'  These 
Churches  were,  no  doubt,  one  in  the  upper,  and  one  in  the 
lower  portions  of  the  Parish. 

private  pews 

lune  9th,  1682,  •"thought  fit  and  likewise  ordered,  that 
Coll :  Ino.  page  may  (might)  have  the  privilege  to  sett  a  pew 
for  himself  and  his  f family  in  the  Chancell  of  the  new  Church 
at  Middle  plantation"*— although  the  Church  was  not  yet 


42  F)t8tonca!  jSotc© 

built.  Cbc  privilege  of  setting  up  a  pew  in  the  Cbanccl,  wa& 
subsequently  accorded  to  the  Ron.  Philip  Ludwell* 
Ht  a  Tcstry  on  Nov.  2,  1704, 
**Hn  order  of  Council  is  given  by  Mr.  William  Robertson^ 
Clerh  of  ye  Council,  wherein  is  proposed  that  ye  South  side 
of  ye  Chancel  of  ye  Church,  (including  ye  pew  where  his  6x- 
cellency  now  sits,)  be  fitted  up  as  a  pew  for  ye  6ovemour  & 
Council  for  ye  time  being,  to  be  done  by  ye  direction  of  Mr* 
Huditor  Byvdf  which  is  agreed  to  by  this  Testry.** 

Cburcb  IParb  Xanb 

On  November  14th,  1 678,  the  land  on  which  the  Church 
was  built,  together  with  ^'sixty  feet  of  the  same,  every  way 
for  a  Church-yard,^  was  the  gift,  forever,  of  the  *^I>onourablc 
Coll :  "Ifohn  page.^  Bvery  receipt  given  by  francis  Page,  for 
moneys  received  for  the  new  Church,  is  thus  signed:  ^*I  say. 
Received  pr  Mc  ffi*a :  Page.** 

"An  act  providing  for  laying  out  Williamsburg  pro- 
vided also  for  condemning  land  for  the  church,  and  the 
map  of  the  town  in  the  college  library  shows  that  the 
churchyard  was  so  enlarged  as  to  take  in  two  acres  on 
Duke  of  Gloucester  street.  Around  three-fourths  of  this 
the  brick  wall  was  built,  and  its  front  is,  on  measurement, 
330  feet.  The  other  portion  unenclosed  was  sold  not 
many  years  ago  to  private  land  owners."^ 

©r^cr  IRcGulatina  Burial  in  tbc  Cburcb 
anb  (Tbancel 

Ht  a  Testrv  held  the  3 1st  October,  1684, present:  *Xhc 
Minister,  Mi*.  Rowland  ^ones,  the  Ron.  Philip  Ludwell, 
esq.,  the  Ron.  Ino.  Page,  Gsq.,  the  f>on.  lames  Bray,  6sq., 
ye  Ron.  tThos.  Ball  and  Capt.  f francis  page,''&c.,it  was  re- 
solved that  *^ffor  the  privilege  of  Burials  cither  in  yc  Chan- 
cell,  or  in  ye  new  Church,  it  is  ordered  by  this  Testry,  that 
for  breaking  up  ye  ground  in  ye  Chancell,  ye  ffees  pa>>able  to 

1  Tyler. 


?>i9toncal  Notes  43 

yc  Mtniatcr  shall  be  oik  thousand  pounds  of  Cobacco,  or  five 
pounds  sterling;  and  in  ye  Church  yt  ffec  payable  to  the 
parish  shall  be  five  hundred  pounds  of  li^obacco,  or  fifty 
shillings  in  money;  and  that  ye  Minister  be  at  ye  charge  to 
relay  ye  Chancell,  and  yc  parish  for  the  same.'* 

©r^er  as  to  where  Certain  people  eboul^  ©It 
in  Cburcb 

']fanuary  9,  1716,  it  is  "Ordered  that  the  Men  sitt  on  the 
ISorth  side  of  the  Church,  and  the  Cdomcn  on  the  left, 

*^Ordered  that  Mr.  Commissary  Blair  sitt  in  the  head 
pew  in  the  Church,  and  that  he  may  Carry  any  Minister  into 
the  same. 

"Ordered  that  the  parishioners  be  seated  in  the  Church, 
and  none  others. 

"Ordered  that  the  Tacant  room  in  the  west  end  of  the 
Church  be  made  into  three  convenient  pews,  and  that  the 
Church  hardens  agree  with  some  workman  to  do  the  same. 

"Ordered  that  Mr.  lohn  Custis  be  removed  into  the  pew 
appropriated  to  the  Surveyor  General.'* 

Q\^  Orders  as  to  location  an^  lllse  of  tbe 
(Balleries 

provision  Made  for  College  Students. 

On  the  loth  'jfuly,  1718,  "whereas  complaint  had  been 
made  to  this  Vestry,  that  there  was  not  room  in  the  gallery 
for  the  touth  that  came  from  the  Colledge,  and  that  they 
were  crowded  by  others,  also  that  several  of  the  parishion- 
ers were  crowded,  for  remedy  of  which,  it  is 

"Ordered,  that  liberty  shall  be  given  the  Colledge  to  take 
that  part  of  ye  6allery  for  the  use  of  the  Colledge  "Youth,  as 
far  from  the  pillar  on  the  south  side  of  the  Isle  of  the 
Church,  to  the  north  side  of  the  Church,<'>  also  that  farther 
leave  be  given  them  to  put  a  door,  with  a  lock  and  key  to  it, 
to  the  stairs  of  the  said  Gallery,  and  the  Sexton  to  keep  the 

1  This  west  gallery  subsequently  became  known  as  Lord  Dunmore's 
gallery. 


44  IMstoncal  jSotc© 

key,**  In  this  west  end  gallery  sat  Peyton  Randolph, 
(1730,)  and  George  Wythe,  (1740,)  while  students  at  the 
College  of  William  and  Mary. 

December,  17,  1720.  Mf.  lobn  Roll© way,  having  ob- 
tained leave  of  the  Governor,  ia  permitted  to  erect  a  gallery  in 
the  end  of  the  south  wing  of  the  Church,  at  his  own  charges. 

On  the  6th  luly,  1721,  ''Ordered  that  a  6allery  be  built 
in  the  south  side  of  the  body  of  the  Church,  from  the  Gallery 
already  erected  in  the  west  end,  unto  the  edge  of  the  third 
window,  to  project  six  feet,  and  to  be  adorned  with  banisters. 
Hnd,  that  the  same  be  appropriated  for  the  boys  of  this 
Pansh.^ 

On  the  9th  May,  1744,  it  is  ordered  that  "the  South 
Gallery  to  be  extended  as  far  as  the  Corner.^ 

On  Sept.  1 1, 1753,  it  is  ''Ordered  that  half  of  the  Soutk 
Gallery,  near  the  pulpit,  in  the  Church  in  Williamsburg,  be 
appropriated  to  the  use  of  the  College  of  William  and  Mary.^ 
Here  sat  Thomas  Jefferson,  (student  1760-62,)  President 
James  Monroe,  (student  1775,)  Chief  Justice  John  Marshal, 
(student  1780,)  Edmund  Randolph,  (student  1776,)  Pres- 
ident John  Tyler,  (student  1802-07,)  and  Winfield  Scott, 
(student  1804.) 

Novem.  18,  1755,  "Ordered  that  the  Revd.  and  honor- 
able Commissary  XThomas  Dawson,  the  f)onorable  ']fno. 
Blair,  Gsqr.,  Peyton  Randolph,  Gsqr.,  Benjamin  Waller, 
esqr.,  or  any  three  of  them,  do  agree  with  a  person  to  build 
a  Loft  for  an  Organ  in  the  Church  in  the  City  of  Williams- 
burg, and  to  set  up  the  same.  Mi*.  Peter  pelham  is  unani- 
mously appointed  and  Chosen  Organist  of  the  Church  in  the 
City  of  Williamsburg.'' 

On  the  7th  October,  1762,  Mf.  Benjamin  Waller,  on  be- 
half of  himself  and  others,  was  permitted  to  build  a  gallery 
on  the  north  side  of  the  Church. 

The  gallery  in  the  north  wing  was  used  for  the  ser- 
vants of  the  Parish,  and  was  entered  by  a  stairway  from 
the  outside. 


^be  passino  of  the  ®lb  IReoime 


HE  Old  Vestry  Book  closes  with  the  Order  of 
I  ~  1769,  which  has  been  quoted,  relating  to  the 
*  removal  of  the  Old  Steeple  and  the  Old  Bell. 

The  closing  of  the  book  was  doubtless  due  to 
the  agitation  springing  from  the  dirturbances 
which  marked  the  closing  years  of  Virginia's 
Colonial  history.  The  passing  of  the  Old  Bell 
seemed  to  toll  the  death  knell  of  the  old  Regime. 
No  other  Church  in  Virginia  had  been  so  inti- 
mately connected  with  her  Colonial  history  as 
this.  Bruton  Church-yard  adjoined  the  Palace  Green. 
Here  ministers  were  the  Court  preachers  of  their  day. 
The  record,  so  far  as  it  gives  us  glimpses  into  their  life  and 
ministry,  indicates  that  they  were  w^orthy  men  and  de- 
voted ministers  of  the  Gospel  of  Christ.  They  held  their 
commissions  from  the  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  and  served 
as  ministers  of  the  established  Church  of  England.  The 
time  had  come  when  this  fact  seriously  hindered  their  in- 
fluence with  many  among  whom  they  lived.  The  passions 
and  prejudices  of  men  are  generally  undiscriminating. 
They  proved  so,  to  a  marked  degree,  in  their  relation  to 
the  Church.  Because  her  ministry  and  service  were  con- 
sidered as  of  English  appointment,  rather  than  as  of  Di- 
vine authority,  they  came  to  be  despised  by  those  who  had 
come  to  hate  the  authority  of  the  English  government. 
Bruton  Church  was  in  the  very  center  of  this  political  and 
social  agitation  which  culminated  in  the  "War  of  Revolu- 
tion. Supported  warmly  by  many  Loyalists,  and  by  some 
who  were  not,  she  became  the  object  of  scorn  to  many  who 
indulged  in  wholesale  denunciation  of  all  things  English. 

^be  Cburcb  Service  in  Colonial  Bai^s 

Before  passing  from  this  long  ago  period  of  the  history 
of  the  Church,  let  us  endeavor  to  bring  back  an  accustomed 
scene  in  Bruton  Church  in  Colonial  days : 


46  historical  JSotcs 

The  old  bell  breaks  the  stillness  of  the  Sabbath  morn. 
It  calls  the  whole  communitj^  to  the  house  of  prayer.  No 
other  bell  is  heard.  There  is  no  other  place  for  worship- 
pers to  go,  unless  they  choose  to  attend  some  gathering 
in  an  humble  meeting  house  where  some  who  do  not  like 
the  Prayer-book,  vestments,  or  organ  music,  are  wont 
to  meet  to  worship  according  to  the  dictates  of  their  con- 
science. The  community,  as  a  whole,  adheres  to  the  es- 
tablished Church.  Old  fashioned  coaches  drive  up  to  the 
gate  and,  as  the  door  is  opened  by  a  liveried  footman,  the 
occupants  come  forth  clothed  after  the  last  year's  fashion 
of  the  Court  of  George  the  Third.  Around  the  door  the 
colonial  Gentry  are  assembled,  clothed  in  colonial  garb. 
In  voices  somewhat  animated,  and  with  language  not 
always  according  to  the  catechism,  they  are  discussing  the 
stamp  act,  and  other  usurpations  and  injustices  of  the 
Government.  It  is  a  genuine  debate,  for  here  forces  are 
very  largely  divided,  and  in  the  crowd  are  many  stout 
Tories,  who  are  warm  in  support  of  the  king,  and  of  his 
representative,  his  Excellency  the  Governor.  From  Ra- 
leigh Tavern  there  comes  a  group  of  men  who  are  repre- 
sentatives of  the  people  in  the  House  of  Burgesses.  Some 
of  them  give  indication  of  having  been  up  late  the  night 
before.  Their  faces  show  very  red  beneath  their  flowing 
wigs  of  white.  They  are  talking  with  loud  voice  and 
animated  gesture.  The  king  finds  few^  advocates  among^ 
them,  and  is  being  roundly  abused  in  a  most  disloj^al  way. 
They  calm  down  as  they  approach  the  Church.  The  Gov- 
ernor's carriage  sweeps  down  the  Palace  Green  and  draws 
up  before  the  door.  The  service  will  soon  begin.  We  pass 
into  the  Church.  In  spite  of  all  the  care  we  take,  our 
footsteps  resound  through  the  building  as  we  w^alk  down 
the  flag-stone  aisle.  Passing  into  a  large  square  pew  we 
close  the  door  and  wait.  It  is  difficult  to  see  those  in  front 
of  us.  The  pews,  we  note,  were  built  to  encourage  rever- 
ence rather  than  observation.  There  are  some  things, 
however,  which  we  can  see  in  spite  of  the  high  back  pews. 


Ristoncal  Notes  47 

We  notice  that  the  men  sit  on  the  north  side  of  the  Church, 
and  the  women  on  the  south,  and  are  informed  that  it  is 
because  the  Vestry  has  so  ordered  it.  Mr.  Peter  Pelham 
enters  and,  ascending  the  "organ  loft,"  begins  to  play  the 
new  organ  recently  purchased  in  England  for  the  Church 
by  order  of  the  House  of  Burgesses.  The  students  from 
the  College  of  William  and  Mary  enter,  attended  by  one  of 
the  Masters,  and  file  into  the  gallery  assigned  to  them  in 
the  south  wing  of  the  Church.  Among  them  are  a  number 
of  young  Indians  who  are  being  educated  and  christian- 
ized at  the  college.  When  the  students  have  all  entered, 
the  gallery  door  is  locked,  and  the  key  given  to  the  sexton. 
There  is  no  chance  now  for  them  to  escape,  no  matter  how 
long  the  parson  may  preach. 

By  an  outside  stairway,  leading  up  to  the  gallery  in 
the  north  wing,  we  see  the  servants  of  the  parishioners 
enter,  and  reverently  await  the  commencement  of  the  ser- 
vice. We  are  told  that  many  of  them  arc  consistent  com- 
municants, and  that  all  have  been  baptized. 

The  door  at  the  west,  leading  from  the  tower,  opens, 
and  the  minister,  w^ho  has  vested  there,  enters  and,  passing 
down  the  aisle,  enters  the  chancel  at  the  east  end  of  the 
Church.  The  clerk  takes  his  place  at  the  desk  below  the 
pulpit,  w^hich  stands  down  in  the  body  of  the  building  at 
the  south-east  comer  of  the  Church. 

And  now,  even  over  the  high  back  pews,  we  can  see 
that  something  is  attracting  general  attention.  The 
tower  door  opens,  and  the  Court  procession  enters,  His 
Excellency,  the  Governor,  passes  down  the  aisle  to  his  pew. 
It  is  in  the  chancel  end  of  the  Church,  on  the  north  side  of 
the  aisle ;  it  is  elevated  from  the  floor.  A  silk  canopy  hangs 
over  it,  and  around  it  in  large  letters  of  gold  is  the  Gover- 
nor's name.  The  Council  of  State,  and  the  members  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses,  and  the  Surveyor-General  take  pews 
officially  assigned.  The  service  begins.  The  minister 
reads,  and  the  clerk,  and  the  people  who  have  Prayer 
Books,  respond.    The  Beadle  keeps  his  eye  upon  the  Col- 


48  Ristoincal  Notes 

lege  youth  in  particular,  and  upon  the  whole  congregation 
in  general.  There  is  no  disturbance.  We  hear  what  sounds 
like  an  imprecation  from  a  near-by  pew  when  the  prayer 
is  said  for  George  the  Third  and  the  Royal  Family,  but  it 
is  discreetly  suppressed,  and  no  note  is  taken  of  it. 

The  service  ended,  the  minister  leaves  the  chancel  and, 
passing  dow^n  the  aisle  with  the  Governor's  pew  on  his 
right,  ascends  the  high  steps  leading  up  into  the  south-east 
corner  pulpit,  takes  his  text,  and  begins  his  sermon.  Those 
who  have  brought  braziers  with  which  to  warm  their 
pews,  listen  with  comfort,  if  not  always  v\^ith  patience. 
Others  grow  cold  and  restless,  and  determine  that  they 
would  not  come  to  Church  if  the  law  had  not  made  it  an 
offence  for  fine  and  imprisonment  to  stay  away. 

The  benediction  said,  groups  gather  in  the  Church  (in  a 
very  unchurchly  way)  and  exchange  greetings,  collect  the 
news,  discuss  the  sermon,  and  exchange  opinions,  and  go 
to  their  homes, — ^homes  noted  for  hospitality  and  good- 
cheer,  but  pervaded  nevertheless  by  a  respect  for  religion 
and,  in  many  instances,  by  a  beautiful  spirit  of  earnest 
Christian  devotion. 

We  can  find  no  statement  as  to  the  status  of  the  Church 
d;uring  the  Revolution.  The  Revd.  John  Bracken's  rector- 
ship covered  this  period,  as  it  extended  from  1773  to  1818. 
The  house  occupied  by  General  Washington  while  his  head- 
quarters were  in  Williamsburg  during  the  war,  was  the 
residence  of  Chancellor  Wythe,  which  immediately  adjoins 
the  Church  yard.  During  this  time,  he  and  his  staff  officers 
doubtless  regularly  attended  the  services  of  the  Church. 

The  war  of  the  Revolution,  which  so  completely  changed 
political,  social,  and  ecclesiastical  conditions,  left  the  old 
Church  unharmed. 

"One  generation  passeth  away,  another  generation 
cometh,"  but  time,  and  the  vicissitudes  of  war,  have 
spared  the  old  Church  to  stand, 

"A  link  among  the  days,  to  knit 
The  generations  each  to  each." 


Ube  Cburcb  after  the  IRevolutfon 


RUTON  Church  suffered,  temporarily,  as  did 
the  whole  Episcopal  Church  in  this  country, 
by  the  disestablishment.  Some  of  the 
clergy  had  espoused  the  cause  of  the  mother 
country  to  which  they  felt  bound  by  their 
oath  of  allegiance.  Mr.  R.  S.  Thomas,  of 
Smithfield,  Va.,  formerly  historiographer  of 
the  Diocese  of  Southern  Virginia,  has,  how- 
ever, established  the  fact,  from  the  old 
records,  that  the  large  majority  of  the  Vir- 
ginia clergy  espoused  the  cause  of  the  colo- 
nies in  the  struggle  for  independence.  Revd. 
Dr.  Madison,  President  of  William  and  Mary 
College,  and  Revd.  Mr.  Bracken,  then  rector  of  Bruton 
Church,  "were  avowed  and  decided  partisans  of  the  Colo- 
nies."' "The  Mercers,  Harrisons,  and  Randolphs,  and 
a  number  of  other  prominent  families," '  connected  with 
Bruton  Church,  had  also  espoused  the  cause  of  indepen- 
dence. But  the  majority  of  the  people  were  antagonistic 
to  the  Church.  The  Church  was  now  separated  from  taq 
state  upon  which  it  had  leaned  for  support.  It  had  to  ad- 
just itself  to  new  conditions  under  peculiar  difficulties. 
War  had  impoverished  those  who  were  disposed  to  sup- 
port it.  On  every  side  the  Church  was  opposed.  Her  in- 
dependence of  State  aid  and  State  control,  and  her  des- 
perate struggle  for  life  in  the  face  of  violent  opposition, 
ultimately  proved  a  great  blessing  to  her  life.  But  for  a 
while  her  faith  was  tested,  and  her  strength  sorely  tried. 
A  brief  outline  of  the  history  of  the  attack  made  upon  the 
Episcopal  Church  is  given  here  as  it  explains  the  loss  of 
the  glebe  lands  of  Bruton  Church. 

On  the  first  of  January,  1777,  the  Episcopal  Church  in 
Virginia  was  incorporated,  and  by  the  act  of  incorpora- 
tion her  property  was  secured.     This  security  was  short- 


I  Hawks.    Ecclesiastical  History,  Virginia,  p.  137. 


60  Ristoncal  Notes 

lived.  By  reason  of  bitter  and  persistent  opposition, 
which  need  not  be  described  here,  this  act  was  repealed 
January  9,  1787 ; '  and  on  the  24th  day  of  January,  1799, 
an  act  was  passed,  "w^hereby  every  act  which  had  been 
passed  since  the  Revolution,  touching  the  Church  and  its 
property,  was  repealed.^  During  this  controversy,  the 
Church,  fore-seeing  the  ultimate  purpose  of  this  influence 
which  was  being  brought  upon  the  Legislature,  secured 
learned  counsel  to  examine  and  report  on  the  legalit3^  of 
the  claim  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  to  the  tenure 
of  the  glebes.  Churches,  etc.  These  lawyers  reported  to 
the  Convention  held  in  Richmond  in  1797  that  it  was 
their  opinion  :  "That  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  is 
the  exclusive  owner  of  these  glebes,  Churches,  etc."  This 
report  was  signed  by  Bushrod  Washington,  Edmund 
Randolph,  and  John  Wickham.^ 

The  enemies  of  the  Church,  having  influenced  the  Legis- 
lature to  pass  the  law  of  1799,  now  found  it  easy  to  strike 
the  final  blow.  This  was  done  through  an  act  passed  on 
Jan.  12th,  1802,  "by  virtue  of  which  the  glebe  lands  were 
ordered  to  be  sold  for  the  benefit  of  the  public. "^ 

The  Convention  of  Virginia  authorized  Bishop 
Madison  to  take  the  case  into  the  Court  of  Appeals.  This 
w^as  done  in  1804.  This  case  was  decided  by  a  vote  of 
three  against  one  in  favor  of  the  Episcopal  Church.  But 
on  the  night  preceding  the  day  when  the  opinion  w^as  to 
have  been  pronounced.  Judge  Pendleton  died. 

Judge  Tucker  was  appointed  to  succeed  him,  and  the 
case  was  again  argued.  Upon  the  second  hearing  the  court 
was  equally  divided,  Judge  Fleming,  who  favored  the 
Church,  having  in  each  instance  refused  to  sit  on  the  case 
because  he  considered  himself  interested  in  the  decision. 
The  decree  of  Chancellor  Wythe,  from  which  the  appeal 


'  Journal  of  House  of  Delegates,  p.  87,  a.n6.  Journal  of  Senate,  p.  91. 
Hawks  194. 

2  Laws  o/"y/r^yn/a,  edition  1803,  p.  338.  Hawks,  p.  233.  i  Virginia 
Convention  Journal  1797.    4  Hawks,  p.  233. 


IMstoncal  Notes  51 

had  been  taken,  was  thus  affirmed,'  and  the  glebe  lands  of 
Brut  on  Church,  with  those  of  many  other  Virginia 
Churches,  were  sold. 

learl^  leptecopal  IDisitationa 

The  first  Episcopal  visitation  ever  made  to  Brutori 
Church  was  that  of  Rt.  Revd.  Dr.  Madison,  reported  by 
him  to  the  Convention  of  1793.  Bishop  Moore  reports 
visitations  to  Bruton  Church  to  the  Conventions  of 
1816,  1819,  1820,  1825  and  1828;  and  Bishop  Meade  re- 
ports visitations  to  this  Church  to  the  Conventions  of 
1832  and  1834;  but  in  all  these  reports  there  is  no  men- 
tion made  of  the  consecration  of  Bruton  Church.  Frequent 
mention  is  made  in  the  Convention  journals  of  Churches 
consecrated,  but  they  seem  to  have  been  either  new 
churches,  or  old  ones  which  had  been  in  disuse,  or  which 
had  been  restored,  or  extensively  repaired.  This  fact  is 
frequently  distinctly  stated.  The  other  Churches  were 
doubtless  considered  as  having  been  consecrated  by  unin- 
terrupted use  in  the  service  of  God,  or  as  having  remained 
unharmed  and  hallowed  during  the  period  of  their  silence. 
Bruton  Church  has  always  been  officially  called  by  the 
Parish  name. 

Bruton  Church  made  valuable  contribution  to 
the  work  of  reconstructing  the  Church  in  Virginia, 
subsequent  to  the  revolution.  The  Rev.  John  Bracken 
was  elected  rector  of  the  Church  in  1773.  An  ex- 
amination of  the  journals  of  the  conventions  of  the 
Episcopal  Church  in  Virginiafrom  1785  to  1818  shows  that 
he  was  prominent  and  influential  in  the  councils  of  the 
church.  In  1785  it  is  "Ordered,  That  the  thanks  of  the 
convention  be  given  to  the  Rev.  John  Bracken,  for  the  ex> 
cellent  sermon  preached  by  him  this  morning.  "^  Mr.  John 
Blair  was  the  Lay  Deputy  to  this  convention.     In  1786 


'  Hawks.    Ecclesiastical  History,  Virginia,  pp.  237-239. 
2  Journals  of  the  Convention  of  Virginia,  1785. 


52  IMstoncal  Notes 

Rev.  Mr.  Bracken  appears  as  a  member  of  the  committee 
on  the  Articles  of  Religion ;  and  at  this  convention  he  re- 
ceived nine  votes  for  delegate  to  the  General  Convention, 
"To  be  holden  in  Philadelphia."  In  1787  he  appears  as  a 
member  of  the  committee  to  revise  the  Canons  of  the 
Church.  He  was  elected  president  of  the  convention  in 
1789,  to  which  Mr.  Robert  Andrews  was  Lay  Deputy 
from  Bruton  Church.  Mr.  Andrews  appears  as  secretary 
of  the  convention  from  1791-97,  when  he  was  succeeded 
in  this  office  by  Rev.  John  Bracken,  D.  D.  At  this  conven- 
tion of  1789,  Edmund  Randolph,  of  Bruton  Parish,  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  Standing  Committee  of  the 
Church,  on  which  Rev  Dr.  Bracken  was  placed  in  1790. 
In  1791,  and  again  in  1812,  he  was  appointed  delegate  to 
the  General  Convention  of  the  Church.  In  1812,  after 
having  been  thanked  by  the  convention  for  his  excellent 
sermon  preached  at  the  opening  session,  he  was 
elected  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  receiving  twenty-two  of  the 
twenty-five  votes  cast.    He  resigned  the  election  in  1813.' 

In  1821  the  Rev.  Reuel  Keith,  D.  D.,  of  Georgetown, 
D.  C,  became  Rector  of  the  Church.  He  reported  to  the 
convention,  held  in  Norfolk  on  the  17th  of  May,  1821,  that 
there  w^ere  twenty-five  communicants,  at  that  time,  in 
Bruton  Church. ^^  Dr.  Keith  remained  as  rector  until  1824, 
when  he  was  elected  Professor  in  The  Theological  Semi- 
nary, Alexandria.^ 

In  1826  the  Rev.  William  H.    Wilmer,  D.  D.,  of  St. 
Paul's  Church,  Alexandria,  w^as  elected  rector  of  Bruton 
Church,  and  President  of  William  and  Mary  College.^ 
To    the    convention    of  1827,    held    in    Fredericksburg, 
Virginia,  he  made  the  following  report: 

"The  rector  of  Bruton  Parish,  Williamsburg,  reports 
that  the  condition  of  the  church  under  his  charge  is  some- 
what improving.     The  building  has  been  repaired — the 


^Journals  of  the  Convention  of  Virginia,  1785-1813. 
*  Journals  of  Convention  of  Virginia,  1821,  1824. 
i  Journals  of  Convention  of  Virginia,  1826. 


IMetorical  Notes  53 

congregation  attend  regularly  upon  public  worship.  An 
increasing  attention  to  the  order  and  services  of  the  church 
is  manifested,  and  the  hope  is  entertained  that  the  pure 
religion  of  Jesus  Christ  is  gaining  ground.  A  kind  feeling 
towards  the  church  prevails  among  the  various  denomi- 
nations of  Christians,  and  the  rector  deems  it  a  matter  of 
advantage  to  the  church,  as  well  as  of  duty  and  inclina- 
tion, to  cherish  and  reciprocate  this  catholic  spirit.  There 
is  a  flourishing  Sunday  School  attached  to  the  congrega- 
tion, consisting  of  one  hundred  and  fifteen  scholars,  which 
does  honour  to  the  zeal  and  piety  of  its  teachers. 

The  number  of  communicants  belonging  to  the  church 
is  about  thirty,  ten  of  whom  have  been  added  lately. 
Baptisms  twelve;  marriages  ten ;  funerals  three."' 

Revd.  Dr.  Wilmer  was  a  man  of  beautiful  Christian 
character.  The  high  esteem  in  which  he  was  held  is  shown 
in  the  tribute  paid  to  his  memory  by  Bishop  Moore,  who 
spoke  of  him  to  his  convention  in  1828  as  follows :  "In 
touching  on  the  subject  of  the  bereavement  we  have  ex- 
perienced in  the  death  of  our  beloved  Wilmer,  it  is  impos- 
sible for  me  to  find  language  sufficiently  strong  to  express 
that  sense  of  his  loss  which  fills  my  mind.  He  was  one  of 
those  who  first  called  my  attention  to  this  Diocese,  and  of 
the  three  clergymen  who  corresponded  with  me  on  that 
subject,  one  only  now  remains. 

To  the  usefulness  of  Dr.  Wilmer  we  must  all  subscribe. 
He  was  a  man  of  business  and  of  piety.  He  loved  his  God, 
and  the  interest  of  the  Church  was  near  his  heart.  As  a 
preacher  he  was  faithful,  energetic,  eloquent.  He  was  the 
friend  of  evangelical  religion,  and  considered  that  the 
strictest  regard  to  the  public  order  of  the  Church  was  per- 
fectly compatible  with  the  most  animated  social  worship, 
in  the  houses  of  his  parishioners  and  friends.  His  private 
meetings  formed,  in  his  opinion,  the  nursery  of  the  Church, 
and  were  blessed  to  the  edification  and  comfort  of  his  con- 
gregation.   He  was  always  ready  to  discharge  his  duty. 


Journals  of  Convention  of  Virginia,  1827. 


54  Ristorical  )Sot€8 

Like  the  Apostle  Paul,  he  not  only  taught  his  people  pub- 
licly, but  went  from  house  to  house,  exhorting  them  to 
prepare  to  meet  their  God.  His  fidelity  in  the  discharge  of 
his  duty  met  my  warmest  approbation ;  and  if  it  i§  your 
wish,  my  brethren  of  the  clergy,  to  give  an  account  of  your 
stewardship  with  joy,  oh,  let  me  entreat  you  all  to  "go 
and  do  likewise." 

That  he  was  loved  and  revered  by  his  people,  and  by 
the  whole  community,  is  evidenced  by  the  inscription  upon 
the  mural  tablet  placed  in  the  Church  to  his  memory. 
This  inscription  is  given  further  on  in  the  book. 

In  1828'  the  Rev.  Adam  Empie  was  elected  rector  of 
the  church.  He  reported  to  the  convention,  held  in  Pet- 
ersburg that  year,  that  "The  whole  number  of  communi- 
cants in  Bruton  Parish,  Williamsburg,  is  38;  that  the 
adult  members  of  the  church  are  about  140;  children  100; 
catechumens  50.  The  Sunday  School  consists,  at  present, 
of  93 ;  the  rector  delivers  one  weekly  lecture  in  the  church, 

which  is  well  attended. 

Signed,  A.  Empie." 

In  1829'  Dr.  Empie  reports  continuous  improvement 
in  the  church;  and  to  the  convention  of  1831  he  states 
that  the  present  number  of  communicants  is  sixty,'  and 
that  the  number  of  adults  was  109,  a  mistake,  he  asserts, 
having  been  made  in  the  number  reported  in  1828. 


Virginia  Convention  yourna/s. 


XCbe  Xater  IDestri^  Book 


HE  next  Vestrj'  Book  of  Bruton  Parish  opens 
in  1827,  with  the  following  members  of  the 
Vestry : 

Henry  Edloe,  Jesse  Cole,  John  Page,  Dr. 
Peachy,  Dr.  Griffin,  W.  W.  Webb,  James 
Semple,  Sr.,  Robt.  McCandlish,  Burwell 
Bassett,  William  Waller,  Leonard  Henley 
and  Ferdinand  S.  Campbell. 

flDobern  Ifnnovatione 


On  April  18,  1829,  it  was  resolved  :  That 
a  Committee  be  appointed  to  ascertain  the 
probable  cost  of  cutting  down  and  painting  the  pews; 
and  on  June  12,  1829  it  was  "found  it  would  cost  about 
$120,"  and  it  was  resolved  :  "That  the  pews  shall  be  cut 
down  and  painted  and  the  Church  whitewashed."  On 
Oct.  20,  1829,  the  Committee  appointed  to  have  the  pews 
cut  down  and  painted,  and  the  Church  whitewashed,  re- 
ported  that  they  had  done  so,  and  that  the  expenses 
thereof  amounted  to  upwards  of  $200,  and  that  they 
had  only  been  able  to  obtain  from  subscriptions  about 
$120,  to  defray  the  expense. 

On  April  2,  1834,  on  motion  it  was  "Resolved  :  That 
the  standing  Committee  be  directed  to  have  the  steps  and 
entry  at  East  end  of  the  Church  on  the  outside  taken 
down,  and  in  lieu  thereof  new  steps  inside  of  the  Church 
be  made  to  ascend  the  Gallery  in  the  East  of  it." 

On  the  28th  of  Feb.,  1834,  it  is  "Resolved:  That  the 
Rt.  Rev.  Bishop  Moore  be  respectfully  solicited  to  lay  be- 
fore the  Vestry  of  Trinity  Church,  New  York,  the  decayed 
condition  of  the  Church  and  the  poverty  of  the 
Parishioners  of  Bruton  Parish,  and  to  use  his  good 
offices  to  procure  such  aid  as  their  benevolence  may 
prompt  " 


56  Ristoncal  Notes 


H  lanlverealiet  niMnieter  Hppltes  to  ipreacb 

On  July  7th,  1834,  the  Vestry  took  into  consideration 
the  application  for  the  Rev.  Mr.  Skinner,  a  Universalist 
Minister,  to  preach  in  this  Church,  and  after  thorough 
examination  of  the  said  application  rejected  it. 

©l^  QxQnn  Solt) 

On  April  23rd,  1835,  it  was  Resolved,  That  the  remains 
of  the  old  organ  be  given  to  Mrs.  Gait  to  be  disposed  of 
by  her  in  such  manner  as  she  may  deem  proper,  the  pro- 
ceeds to  be  applied  to  the  ornament  or  improvement  of 
the  organ  gallery,  or  such  other  uses  in  the  Church  as  she 
may  think  expedient. 

The  items  above  mentioned  all  appear  during  the  rec- 
torship of  Revd.  Dr.  Empie. 

On  Tuesday,  May  8th,  1838,  during  the  rectorship 
of  the  Rev.  William  Hodges,  a  communication  was 
received  by  the  Vestry  from  the  Ladies'  Working  Society 
stating  that  **the  Directors  and  Managers  of  the  same, 
tender  to  the  Vestry  $700,  being  the  proceeds  of  the  late 
Fair  for  the  repairs  of  the  Church." 

On  the  19th,  of  July,  1839,  it  was  "Resolved:  That 
all  the  interior  of  the  Church  not  necessary  for  further  use 
be  sold  (by  the  Committee  appointed  to  have  the  Church 
repaired)  at  such  time  and  in  such  manner  as  they  may 
deem  best. 

Ifntertor  1Remo^eIe^ 

Acting  under  these  orders,  and  others  of  like  purport, 
the  Church  was  remodeled  in  the  interior.  The  exterior 
remained  unchanged.  A  partition  wall  was  built  across 
the  Church,  changing  the  shape  from  a  cross  to  a  T-  T^^^ 
chancel  was  removed  from  the  East  end  of  the  Church, 
where  it  had  been  for  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  years^ 


Interior  View,  i 840-1886. 


The  Duke  of  Gloucester  Street. 


IMstoncal  Notes  57 

and  built  out  from  the  newly  erected  partition  wall  in  the 
West.  The  old  nave  of  the  Church  was  not  sold,  but  was 
afterward  used  for  the  Sunday  School.  The  Church,  thus 
turned  around,  was  fancifully  decorated  on  the  interior. 
The  old  pulpit  and  the  flag  stone  aisle  were  removed,  and 
the  tow^er  was  converted  into  a  place  for  holding  coal. 

The  diagram  on  page  58  will  show^  the  nature  and  eflfect 
of  these  alterations  of  1840. 

Zbe  riDa^oi '0  ipevo 

The  pew  set  apart  for  the  Colonial  Governor  was  as- 
signed after  the  revolution  to  the  Mayor  of  the  City  of 
Williamsburg,  out  of  respect  for  his  position  and  au- 
thority. In  1825  it  was  occupied  by  Mr.  Wm.  T.  Gait, 
who,  while  Mayor  of  the  city,  officiall}'  received  and  wel- 
comed La  Fayette  when  he  visited  the  place. ^ 

The  pew  occupied  l3y  the  Colonial  Governors  has  been 
designated  in  diagram  on  page  58  as  located  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  the  Church  Governor  John  Page  is  known 
to  have  occupied  the  pew  located  at  this  corner  facing 
south.  Mr.  Wm.  T.  Gait  and  Mr.  Robt.  Saunders,^  both 
mayors  of  Williamsburg,  are  known  to  have  occupied  the 
pew  intersecting  Governor  Page's  pew  just  at  the  corner 
and  facing  East,  before  the  change  ot  1840,  and  subse- 
quently facing  West.  The  Colonial  Governor  doubtless 
occupied  a  large  square  pew,  which  would  have  embraced 
them  both,  and  enabled  him  to  sit  just  opposite  the 
corner  pulpit  located  at  the  south-east  corner,  or,  by  sit- 
ting on  the  other  side  of  the  pew,  to  face  the  Chancel  in  the 
East.  There  are  letters  extant  which  locate  these  as  the 
pews  of  the  above  named  persons;  and  there  is  one 
person^  still  living  who  remembers  the  red  canopy  hang- 
ing there  which  originally  marked  the  pew  of  the  Colonial 
Governor.  In  1704  the  Governor  occupied  a  pew  on  the 
south  side  of  the  Chancel.     (See  p.  42). 

I  From  an  old  letter,     a  Mrs.  Robt.  Saunders  was  the  daughter  of 
Governor  John  Page.     3  Mrs.  Randolph  Harrison. 


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IMstortcal  )SotC8  59 

^be  l>ew9  'Kente^  ®ut 

On  the  22d  day  of  May  1840,  in  order  to  obtain 
revenue,  it  was  resolved,  that  the  pews  of  the  Church  be 
rented  out;  and  on  the  22d  day  of  May,  1840,  there  ap- 
pears the  following^  record : 

No.  5,  to  Miss  B.  Page, twenty  dollars;  No.  6,  to  Mrs. 
Coleman,  twenty-five  dollars  ;  No.  7,  to  Richard  Randolph, 
twenty -five  dollars;  No.  8,  to  Dickie  Gait,  thirty  dollars; 
No.  9.  to  H  A.  Burwell,  thirty  dollars;  No.  11,  to  John 
Coke,  thirty  dollars;  No.  12,  to  A.  G.  Southall, thirty-two 
dollars  and  fifty  cents ;  No.  13,  to  William  Martin,  thirty 
dollars  ;  No.  14,  to  R.  P.  Waller,  forty-two  dollars ;  No.  15, 
to  A.  D.  Gait, twenty  dollars;  No.  16,  to  Ro.  P.  Waller, 
thirty-three  dollars.  No.  17,  to  G.  Durfey,  twenty-five  dol- 
lars; No.  18,  to  W.  W.  Vest,  twenty -five  dollars;  No.  19,  to 
W.  W.  Tyler,  fifteen  dollars,  No.  20,  to  S.  S.  Griffin,  fifteen 
dollars;  No.  21,  to  Robert  Anderson, forty  dollars;  No. 22, 
to  Robert  Anderson,  forty  dollars;  No.  23,  to  Tho.  R. 
Dew,  fifty  dollars ;  No.  24,  to  Robert  Anderson,  fifty  dol- 
lars; No.  25,  to  B.  Tucker,  fifty  dollars;  No.  26,  to  Ro. 
Saunders, fifty  dollars;  No.  27,  to  John  B.  Christian,  forty 
dollars;  No.  28,  to  Jesse  Cole,  forty  dollars;  No.  29,  to 
Sam.  F.  Bright,  forty  dollars;  No.  30,  to  R.  M.  Garrett, 
forty-five  dollars ;  No.  31,  to  Thos.  G.  Peachy,  forty  dol- 
lars ;  No.  32,  to  J.  C.  Sheldon,  fifty  dollars ;  No.  33,  to 
Dabney  Browne,  forty  dollars;  No.  34,  to  Robert 
McCandlish,  sixty  dollars ;  No.  35,  to  Moreau  Bowers, 
thirty-seven  dollars ;  No.  36,  to  William  H.  Pierce,  forty 
dollars;  No.  37,  to  Benjamin  Hansford,  thirtj^  dollars; 
No.  38,  to  Lucius  F.  Gary,  forty  dollars;  No.  39,  to  John 
Millington,  thirty-four  dollars ;  No.  40,  to  William  Edloe, 
thirty-six  dollars;  No.  41,  to  John  M.  Gait,  twenty -two 
dollars ;  No.  42,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Shield,  twenty-four  dollars; 
No.  43,  to  Henley  Taylor,  fifteen  dollars;  No.  44,  to  Mrs. 
Henry  Edloe,  twenty  dollars;  No.  45,  to  John  Tyler,  fifteen 
dollars;  No.  46,  to  Mrs.  Mary  Carter,  ten  dollars;  No  48, 
to  Mrs.  Miller,  ten  dollars. 


60  Rtstorical  JSotes 

At  a  meeting  of  the  vestry  held  Jan.  23rd,  1878,  it  was 
"Resolved,  That  the  pews  in  this  Church  are  free  and  all 
persons  are  invited  to  attend  our  services." 

^wn  Cloc?^  placed  in  Cburcb  Steeple 

On  the  14th  day  of  July,  184-0,  on  motion,  it  was 
Resolved,  That  the  Town  authorities  have  permission  to 
have  the  town  clock  removed  to  the  Church  and  fixed  up 
therein. 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  vestry  held  on  the  8th  of  May, 
1841,  it  was  "Resolved,  That  the  Church  be  fitted  up  in  the 
usual  emblems  of  mourning  on  Friday  the  14th  day  of 
May,  in  compliance  with  the  recommendation  of  the 
President  of  the  United  States,  because  of  our  national 
bereavement  in  the  recent  death  of  Wm.  Henry  Harrison, 
our  late  President." 

The  Revd.  William  Hodges, D.  D.,  resigned  in  1848,  and 
was  succeeded  by  the  Revd.  Henry  M.  Denison,  who  con- 
tinued rector  until  March,  1850.  He  was  again  elected 
rector  in  1852.  He  was  succeeded  in  1856  by  the  Revd. 
Geo.  Wilmer,  D.  D.,  who  was  rector  for  one  year.  Dr. 
Wilmer  was  followed  in  the  rectorship  by  Revd.  Thomas 
Ambler,  who  served  as  rector  for  twelve  years,  from  1860 
to  1872. 

On  the  1st  day  of  May,  1852,  "On  motion  it  was  re- 
solved, That  a  Gallery  be  erected,  and  that  Dr.  Jno.  M. 
Gait  and  Mr.  G.  Durfey  be  appointed  a  Committee  to 
draft  a  plan  and  to  let  the  same  to  the  lowest  bidder." 

The  last  entry  in  the  Vestry  book,  preceding  the  Civil 
War.  was  made  on  April  13,  1853,  at  which  time  the  fol- 
lowing gentlemen  were  enrolled  as  Vestrymen : 

Robert  Saunders,  Goodrich  Durfey,  Robert  T.  Cole, 
M.  Gait,  R.  M.  Garrett,  C.  Jos.  Coleman,  Turner  Christian, 
W.  W.  Vest,  John  A.  Henley,  Joshua  Walker,  Jr.,  William 
Waller,  Robert  McCandlish. 


Ristoncal  )Votc9  61 

The  Revd.  Thos.  M.  Ambler,  who  was  Rector  of  the 
Church  during  the  time  of  the  Civil  War,  states  that  one 
year  after  the  battle  of  Williamsburg,  some  if  not  all  of 
the  Communion  silver  of  the  Church  was  removed  from 
the  city,  and  taken  by  him  to  South  Carolina  and  else- 
Avhere,  and  brought  back  by  him  at  the  conclusion  of  the 
war. 

He  further  states  that  no  service  was  held  in  the 
Church  during  the  war  because  the  authorities  would  not 
allow  the  service  unless  the  prayer  for  the  President  of  the 
United  States  was  said.  During  a  part  of  this  time  the 
Church  was  used  as  a  hospital  for  the  Confederate  sol- 
diers. The  services,  however,  were  not  abandoned,  for 
Revd.  Mr.  Ambler  held  regular  services  on  Sunday  at  his 
home,  which  continued  until  he  left  the  city  to  enter  the 
army  as  a  commissioned  Chaplain.  After  the  war  he  re- 
turned as  rector,  and  visited  the  north,  securing  $250  for 
repairing  the  roof  of  the  Church. 

The  first  entry  in  the  Vestry  book  after  the  Civil  War 
was  made  on  October,  1865,  at  which  time  the  following 
gentlemen  w^ere  enrolled : 

Revd  Thos.  M.  Ambler,  Rector;  Mr.  Robert  Saunders, 
Mr.  P.  Montague  Thompson,  Mr.  W.  W.  Vest,  Mr.  R.  F. 
Cole,  Mr.  J.  C.  Munford,  Mr.  E.  Taliaferro,  Mr.  Richard 
Hansford,  Mr.  G.  Durfey,  Mr.  Wm.  S.  Peachy,  Mr.  John 
A.  Henley,  Dr.  Robert  Garrett. 

After  the  rectorship  of  Revd.  Thos.  M.  Ambler,  the 
Revd.  Geo.  Wilmer,  D.  D.,  was  for  the  second  time  elected 
rector  in  1872,  and  served  four  years.  The  Revd.  Jaquelin 
Meredith  served  as  rector  from  1876  to  1877;  Revd. 
Henry  Wall,  S.D.T.,  from  1877  to  1880;  Revd.  Alexander 
Overby  from  1880  to  1885;  the  Revd.  F.  G.  Burch  from 
1885  to  1887;  The  Revd.  Lyman  B.  Wharton,  D.  D  ,  now 
Professor  of  Latin  in  the  College  of  William  and  Mary, 
was  rector  in  1888 ;  The  Revd.  T.  C.  Page  served  as  rector 
from  1889  to  1893 ;  and  the  Revd.  William  T.  Roberts 
from  1894  to  1902. 


62  IMstorical  Note* 

At  a  meeting  of  the  vestry  of  the  Bruton  Parish  held 
in  the  lecture  room  on  Monday,  the  5th  of  April,  1873,  on 
motion  it  was  "Resolved,  That  the  rector,  Revd.  George 
T,  Wilmer,  is  hereby  requested  to  furnish  anj^  information 
in  his  possession  relative  to  any  of  the  missing  records  of 
this  Parish,  or  their  contents,  and  report  at  his  con- 
venience to  the  Vestry. 

At  a  vestry  meeting  held  on  October  27,  1885,  it  was 
"Resolved,  That  a  committee  appointed  be  authorized 
and  empowered  to  contract  to  have  a  tin  roof  put  upon 
the  Church." 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  vestry  of  Chnst  Church,*  Bruton 
Parish,  held  on  March  2nd,  1886,  the  Revd.  Francis  M. 
Burch,  Rector,  being  present,  it  was  determined  :  First, 
to  repair  the  floor  and  make  it  perfectly  secure ;  second, 
that  the  walls  should  be  plastered  and  kalsomined ;  third, 
that  the  side  lamps  should  be  removed,  and  the  Church 
lighted  by  chandeliers;  fourth,  that  the  present  Pulpit 
(see  illustration  showing  interior  view  1840-1886,) 
be  taken  down,  and  reading  desk  and  Pulpit  and  Com- 
munion table  supplied ;  fifth,  that  the  Gallery  in  the  north 
end  of  the  Church  be  removed." 

For  these,  and  other  repairs,  the  "Catharine  Memorial 
Society"  placed  $300  in  the  treasury  of  the  Church.  The 
changes  determined  upon  were  made,  and  the  furniture  for 
the  chancel  purchased.  The  pulpit  purchased  by  this 
Society  was  subsequently  presented  to  St.  John's  Church, 
Petersburg,  Va. 

On  March  24,  1887,  the  vestry  granted  the  request  of 
"The  Catharine  Memorial  Society  to  repair  the  old  monu- 
ments in  the  church  yard,  and  otherwise  to  put  in  order 
as  their  means  would  justify." 

On  February  12th,  1902,  "the  rector,  Revd.  W.  T. 
Roberts,  reported  that  the  deed  to  the  Parish  house  had 
been  made  in  the  name  of  the  trustees  of  the  Church,  and 


'  We  occasionally,  at  this  time,  find  Bruton  Church  thus  designated^ 
without  authority. 


Distoncal  Notes  63 

had  been  recorded."  This  Parish  house  was  secured  in 
i)rder  to  make  room  for  the  Sunday  School  and  Parish 
meetings,  in  view  of  the  restoration  of  the  Church  which 
was  then  contemplated 

Zbc  IRcetoratton  of  tbe  Cburcb 

It  has  long  been  thought  that  the  comparatively 
modern  changes  which  were  made  in  the  Church  in  1840, 
destroying  its  ancient  cruciform  shape,  were  out  of  keeping 
with  the  rest  of  the  building ;  and  that  the  interior  of  the 
Church  should  be  restored  to  its  ancient  form. 

The  following  account  of  the  action  of  the  congrega- 
tion and  Vestry,  which  appeared  in  the  Southern  Church- 
man of  May  30,  1903,  will  show  what  has  been  deter- 
mined upon  in  this  matter : 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  vestry  of  Bruton  Church,  held 
Saturday  evening.  May  23rd,  the  rector,  the  Revd.  W.  A.  R. 
Goodwin,  stated  that  he  had,  at  the  request  of  the  vestry, 
presented  the  question  of  the  restoration  of  the  Church  to 
the  congregation  on  Sunday'  morning,  May  19th,  and 
asked  that  those  opposed  to  such  restoration,  if  any,  should 
so  inform  the  rector,  and  that  at  the  service  held  May  17, 
8  P.  M.,  at  the  visitation  of  the  Bishop,  the  rector  had  stated 
that  final  action  on  this  matter  would  be  taken  by  the  vestry 
on  May  23d;  that  no  member  of  the  congregation  had 
offered  any  opposition  to  the  plan,  but  that  a  great  many 
had  expressed  their  hearty  approval  of  the  undertaking. 

Mr.  Mercer  moved,  that  whereas  no  objection  had 
come  to  the  knowledge  of  the  vestry  on  the  part  of  any 
member  of  the  congregation  to  the  proposed  restoration 
of  the  Church  edifice,  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  vestry  proceed  with  the  considera- 
tion of  the  restoration  proposed  by  Dr.  Garrett  at  the 
meeting  of  the  vestry,  held  May  8,  1903,  which  is  in  the 
following  w^ords,  to-wit: 

"Resolved,  Tha  t  it  is  the  sense  of  the  vestry  to  restore  Bru- 
ton  Church  to  its  original  form,  provided  the  move  on  their 


64  f)t9toncal  ]HotC9 

part  meets  with  the  approval  of  a  majority  of  the  members  of 
the  Church,  and  that  the  rector  be  requested  to  present  this 
matter  to  the  congregation  and  ascertain  their  views  on 
the  subject,  and  to  report  to  the  vestry  at  some  future 
meeting." 

It  is  further  provided  that  no  steps  in  this  matter 
shall  be  taken  until  the  necessary  funds  have  been  received . 
This  was  unanimously  carried. 

Dr.  Garrett  thereupon  moved  that  the  vestry  proceed 
to  take  such  steps  as  shall  be  necessary  to  restore  Bruton 
Church  to  its  original  form ;  provided,  however,  that  no 
work  shall  be  undertaken  until  the  necessary  funds  shall 
have  been  secured,  and  the  rector  is  hereby  authorized  to 
solicit  contributions  for  this  purpose,  and  that  all  funds 
collected  for  this  object  be  turned  over  to  the  treasurer  of 
the  Church  and  be  deposited  in  bank  on  interest-bearing 
account.    Unanimously  adopted. 

The  rector  suggested  that  the  vestry  associate  with 
themselves,  in  the  restoration  of  the  Church,  an  advisory 
committee,  consisting  of  the  Rt.  Revd.  A.  M.  Randolph, 
Revd.  Dr.  B.  D.  Tucker,  Diocese  of  Southern  Virginia ;  Revd. 
J.  J.  Gravatt,  Diocese  of  Virginia;  Revd.  Dr.  Randolph 
H.  McKim,  Washington,  D.  C;  Revd.  Dr.  William  R. 
Huntington,  Diocese  of  New  York;  Mr.  J.  Frederick 
Kernachan,  New  York,  and  such  others  as  they 
may  deem  proper.  This  suggestion  was  unanimously 
agreed  to. 

It  is  gratifying  to  the  vestry  to  be  able  to  say  that 
after  a  full  and  free  discussion  of  the  proposed  restoration 
of  the  dear  old  Church,  not  onlj^  in  the  sessions  of  the 
vestry,  and  among  the  congregation,  but  with  many  dis- 
tinguished visitors,  we  are  yet  to  hear  of  any  serious 
opposition  on  the  part  of  any  one,  and  we  are  assured 
that  the  funds  necessary  to  make  the  changes  contem- 
plated will  soon  be  available.  We  have  already  some  sub- 
stantial promises  of  aid."  H.  D.  Cole, 

Registrar  of  the  Vestry. 


IMstortcal  Notes 


65 


The  experience  and  knowledge  of  the  gentlemen  as- 
sociated with  us  on  the  advisory  committee  will  be  of 
great  service  to  the  vestry  in  the  undertaking,  and  will 
give  to  the  Church  at  large  the  assurance  that  the  work 
will  be  wisely  planned  and  executed. 


IFn  flDemonam 


OD,  through  nature,  has  done  much  to  make 

G  beautiful  the  spacious  grounds  where  the 

old  Church  stands.  Each  season  gives  to 
the  place  a  special  charm,  and  a  varied  love- 
liness. The  spring  calls  forth  the  wild 
butter-cups  which  spread  themselves  over 
the  entire  grounds  like  a  rich  cloth  of  gold. 
The  summer  breathes  upon  the  roses  which 
blossom  forth  and  bloom  here  among  the 
tombs  and  above  the  green  graves  of  the 
dead  of  other  days.  The  ancient  trees,  full- 
leaved,  cast  upon  the  dark  walls  of  the  old 
Church  deep  shadows  which  lengthen  and 
deepen  with  the  dying  day.  Then  the  touch  of  autumn 
tells  that  another  j^ear  is  beginning  to  die.  The  berries 
redden  on  the  English  hawthorn  tree  which  stands  near 
by  the  ancient  tower  door ;  the  vine,  clinging  to  the  north 
wall  of  the  Church,  turns  crimson;  and  the  leaves  flush 
with  varied  color,  then  fall  and  die.  In  the  bleak  winter 
the  wind,  as  if  at  requiem,  sighs  through  the  bare  trees, 
and  moans  about  the  w^alls  and  tower  of  the  old  Church. 
Onl}'  the  ivy  which  mantles  the  eastern  end  of  the  build- 
ing, and  clings  to  the  old  trees  in  the  Church  yard,  re- 
mains green.  But  the  scene  is  one  of  matchless  beauty, 
when,  from  heaven,  the  mantle  of  spotless  white  softly 
falls  o'er  Church,  and  tombs,  and  bending  trees.  And 
then,  again,  there  come  the  glad  days  that  speak  of  life, 
and  suggest  thoughts  of  immortality.  Dormant  vital 
forces  stir  and  breathe  and  move.  The  air  is  filled  with 
the  music  of  birds  singing  as  they  nest  in  the  trees  in  the 
Temple  court,  and  is  ladened  with  the  perfume  of  the 
hawthorn  bloom,  and  violets  come  forth  and  weave  a 
border  of  purple  and  green  about  the  bases  of  the  tombs. 

Through  the  many  changing  seasons,  unchanged  the 
Church  has  stood.    The  touch  of  time  has  been  gentle  and 


historical  JSotcs  67 

forbearing.  Through  widening  cracks  the  old  Church,  at 
times,  has  made  mute  appeals  for  protecting  care,  to 
which  those  who  loved  her  have  responded.  The  ancient 
tower,  through  w^hich  so  many  of  the  living  and  the  dead 
have  passed,  is  even  now  appealing  for  repairs  to  protect 
its  strength.  What  time  has  spared  so  long  and  hallowed, 
must  not  suffer  harm  from  man's  neglect.  To  secure  its 
protection  and  preservation  the  Church  should  be 
ENDOWED.  This  endowment  should  be  given,  not  to  main- 
tain the  living  service,  which  it  is  the  privilege  of  those 
who  worship  here  to  do,  but  to  provide  a  perpetual 
fund  for  the  preservation  of  the  old  Church  building,  and 
for  the  rightful  care  of  the  grounds  where  sleep  the  dead 
who  worshipped  here,  and  loved,  as  we  do  now,  this 
sacred  soil  which  now^  enshrines  their  dust.  This  endow- 
ment would  be  a  fitting  tribute  from  the  living  to  the 
memory'  of  the  dead,  and  would  be  to  the  glory  of  God 
Who  has  watched  over  and  protected  this  ancient  and 
hallowed  Temple  which  bears  witness  to  the  faith  and 
devotion  of  our  fore-fathers. 


Communion  Silver 


HE  Church  has  at  present  three  sets  of  Com- 
m union  Silver,  which  on  account  of  their 
sacred  associations  and  antiquity^  are  highly 
prized  and  carefully  preserved.  The  follow- 
ing description  of  this  plate  is  taken  from 
a  book  entitled  "Old  Plate,"  by  John  H. 
Buck,  published  by  the  Gorham  Manufac- 
turing Co.,  New  York,  1888,  pp  210-212 : 

Zbc  Jamestown  Cburcb  Service 

"CHALICE,  H  103/4  in.  PATEN,Dia  7  in. 
One  mark,  |  y^^  oval  object  below,  plain 
shield. 

Inscription  on  each :  jMtxc  not  holy  thttigcs  with  pro- 
fane Gx  dotio  frawtsct  jMomson,  Hmngcn*  Himo  Domt 
1 66 1.  This  maker's  mark  is  on  the  celebrated  cup  form- 
erly belonging  to  the  Blacksmith's  Company,  London, 
1655,  and  purchased  at  the  Dexter  sale  for  no  less  a  sum 
than  £378,  and  it  is  also  found  in  a  shaped  shield  on  the 
copper  plate  preserved  at  Goldsmith's  Hall  1675-1697. 

ALMS  BASIN,  Dia  9%  in.  Four  marks :  1,  Lion  pas- 
sant; 2,  Leopard's  Head,  crowned;  3,  Small  Roman  a,' 
London  1739:  4,  maker's  mark,  .T  F.  (Thomas  Farren). 
Inscription:  for  the  use  of  lanws  Ctty  pamb  Church. 
This  service  has  been  in  use  in  Bruton  Church  since  the 
Church  at  Jamestown  was  abandoned.    (See  illustration.) 

Bruton  parieb  Cburcb 

Two-handled  CUP  AND  COVER,  gilt  H  3%  in. ;  Dia. 
414  in.  Four  marks:  Lion  passant;  2,  Leopard's  Head, 
crowned  ;  3,  black  letter  small  i  London  1686;  4,  maker's 
mark  p  •  |-|^  crown  and  tw^o  ermine  spots  above,  crescent 
below,  shaped  escutcheon,  Peeter  Harache.    This  maker's 


♦Francis  Morrison  was  at  this  time  acting  Governor  of  the  Colony. 
I  This  should  be  small  Roman  d,  London,  1739. 


fMstorical  Notes  69 

mark  is  also  to  be  found  on  the  copper  plate  preserved  at 
Goldsmith's  Hall. 

PATEN,  Dia  5V^  in.  Four  marks:  1,  Lion  passant; 
2,  I>€opard's  Head,  crowned  ;  3,  small  Roman  b,'  London 

17.37;  4,  maker's  mark  R»  6.  (Richard  Gurney  and  Co.) 

C 

The  cup  is  beautifully  chased  and  embellished  with 
applique  leaves  and  bears  private  arms,  the  Paten  is  of 
less  delicate  workmanship.     (See  illustration.) 

[The  following  letter  in  reference  to  the  tw^o-handled 
cup  and  cover  written  recently  is  inserted  here,  as  it  con- 
tains additional  information  in  regard  to  this  silver  w^hich 
has  been  commonly  known  as  the  Queen  Anne  Service.] 

49  North  8th  Ave.,  Mount  Vernon,  N.  Y., 
October  21,  1903. 
Revd.  Sir:— 

The  Gorham  Co.  have  handed  me  your  favor  of  the 
17th  inst.,  to  replj^  to.  You  are  welcome  to  use  the  re- 
quired matter  from  ''Old  Plate,"  as  you  suggest.  In  1897 
I  received  a  letter  from  the  President  of  William  and  Mary 
College^  with  regard  to  the  cup  and  cover  now  in  use  in 
your  church.  "I  have  a  letter  of  Samuel  Athaires  from 
London  to  the  President  and  Masters  of  the  college,  under 
date  29th  July,  1775,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  he  has  in 
his  custody  'the  gilt  sacramental  cup  and  patten,  together 
with  the  bible  which  was  left  by  Lady  Gooch  to  the  col- 
lege of  William  and  Mary,  and  which,  when  the  times 
would  permit  he  would  send  addressed  to  the  Bursar  of 
that  seminary.'  Now  Lad\^  Gooch  was  Rebecca,  daugh- 
ter of  William  Stanton,  Esq."  (the  arms  on  the  dexter 
side  of  shield  engraved  on  cup  are  those  of  Stanton).  "I 
suppose  the  cup  and  bible  fell  into  the  custody  of  the 
church  through  Revd.  John  Bracken,  who  was  president 


'  The  letter  on  the  paten  is  a  small  Roman  q,  London,  1751. 
2  Lyon  G.  Tyler,  M.  A.,  LL.  D. 


70  Rtstoncal  Notes 

of  the  college  in   1812,   and    also    minister    of   Bruton 
Church.  Yours  very  truly, 

John  H.  Buck. 

^be  Mm  (Beoree  Service 

FLAGON,  H  10^2  in.  CHALICE,  H  10  in.  ALMS 
BASIN,  Dia  10  in.  Four  marks  on  Flagon:  1,  Lion  pas- 
sant; 2,  Leopard's  Head,  crowned;  3,  Old  English  capi- 
tal ^'  London  1766 ;  4,  maker's  mark  ^.^  crowned 
(Thos.  Heming). 

On  Chalice  the  maker's  mark  is  wanting,  and  the 
date  letter  is  an  old  Old  English  31,  London  1764,  there 
are  no  marks  on  the  Alms  Basin.  All  engraved  with  the 
Royal  Arms  between  the  initials  Gi  |  |  |  R  with  motto 
"Rom  aoit  qui  mal  y  pctisc,'' 

Plate  of  the  same  date  and  by  the  same  maker  is  at 
Trinity  Church,  New  York."    (See  illustration.) 

These  services  of  communion  silver,  when  not  in  use, 
are  kept  in  a  fire-proof  vault  in  a  building  of  the  Eastern 
State  Hospital. 

Z\)c  ifont 

According  to  tradition  the  Font  in  Bruton  Church 
was  used  in  the  Church  at  Jamestown,  and  was  brought 
from  that  place  when  the  House  of  Burgesses  was  moved 
to  Williamsburg,  in  1699. 

Font  Stones 

In  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers  Vol.  I,  page  35,  there 
is  the  following  record  relating  to  the  importation  of 
Font  Stones : 

*^Onc  order  more,  fame  date  (Hpril  19,  1692),  concern- 
ing font  stones  at  CindaU's  point,  Mr.  Robt.  Read  one, 

I  This  old  English  L  is  not  exactly  the  same  form  as  the  style  of  L 
on  the  silver. 


Ristorical  Notes  71 

Capt.  Cborp  one,  &  by  Capt.  ITborp's  Itifonnation  to  my 
Cinder  Sbcrtf^  Capt.  ffra,  Page  one,  Capt,  lames  Hrcben 
one  &r  y^  ye  Stone  in  Brougbton,  p'ifb  Cburcb  is  ye  fame,  & 
y^  Capt.  page  gave  bia  Receipt  for  tbem,  but  to  wbome  be 
Knows  not.^ 

The  tradition  in  the  Parish  is  that  when  the  James- 
town font  was  brought  to  Williamsburg,  the  one  im- 
ported in  1692  was  given  to  one  of  the  neighboring 
Churches. 

Zbc  Bell 

The  bell  w^hich  has  rung  out  the  years  for  more  than 
a  century  and  a  quarter,  has  engraved  upon  it:  "The  gift 
of  James  Tarple3'  to  Bruton  Parish,  1761."  There  was 
a  still  older  bell,  which  has  been  referred  to,  for  the  vestry, 
in  1769,  entered  an  order  for  their  contractor,  Benjamin 
Powell,  to  have  the  "Old  Bell  and  the  materials  of  the  old 
steeple."  The  ancient  clock  still  looks  down  from  the 
steeple,  but  for  many  years  it  has  been  unmindful  of  the 
flight  of  time. 

®lt)  IRecort)  Booths 

The  old  Parish  Register  of  the  Church  is  still  in  the 
possession  of  the  Vestry.  It  was  found  some  years  ago 
in  a  box  of  papers  where  it  had  doubtless  been  hid  for 
safe  keeping  during  the  war.  During  this  time  it  was 
badly  mutilated  by  some  person,  ignorant  of  its  value. 
A  large  number  of  pages  were  torn  from  the  front  and 
back  of  the  book.  It  now  contains  the  records  of  Bap- 
tisms from  1739  to  May  21st,  1797,  and  the  record  of 
Deaths  from  April  13th,  1662,  to  December  18th,  1761. 
Thus  it  would  appear  that  pages  containing  the  record  of 
seventy-seven  years  were  torn  from  the  front,  and  pages 
containing  the  record  of  deaths  for  thirty-six  years  were 
torn  from  the  back.  The  book  that  remains  has  been 
rebound,  and  is  kept  in  an  iron  safe. 


^72  FHstoncal  jVotes 

The  entries  in  this  Old  Parish  register  prior  to  1674., 
seem  to  belong  to  one  of  the  adjacent  churches,  probably 
to  the  one  located  in  Marston  Parish,  which  was  united 
with  Middletown  Parish  in  1674.  The  Baptismal  record 
in  this  book  shows  with  what  care  the  members  of  the 
Church  provided  spiritual  ministration  for  the  children 
of  their  servants.  The  illustration  given  shows  two  pages 
of  this  ancient  record. 

As  stated  in  the  introduction,  the  old  vestry  book  of 
the  Parish  was  either  lost  or  destro3^ed  during  the  wars, 
or  was  burned  with  the  house  of  Revd.  John  McCabe  in 
Hampton. 

iCxtracts  from  Sermons  |preacbe^  in  Bruton 
Cburcb  b^  Commteean?  IBlair,  1710^1743 

On  Lying  and  Swearing 

"Thus  now  I  have  done  with  my  text ;  but  I  am  afraid 
I  have  done  no  good  all  this  while,  and  that  the  evil  one, 
from  whom  the  spirit  of  hing  and  swearing  comes,  will 
be  abundantly  too  hard  for  all  that  I  can  say  or  do  to 
fortify  you  against  his  devices.  Learn,  I  beseech  you,  this 
easy  part  of  Christianity,  to  be  men  of  your  word,  and  to 
refrain  from  the  evil  custom  of  swearing ;  and  to  refrain 
from  it  from  a  right  principle — the  fear  of  God.  I  know 
no  vice  that  brings  more  scandal  to  our  Church  of  Eng- 
land. The  Church  may  be  in  danger  from  many  enemies ; 
but  perhaps  she  is  not  so  much  in  danger  from  any  as  from 
the  great  number  of  profane  persons  that  pretend  to  be  of 
her;  enough  to  make  all  serious  people  afraid  of  our 
society,  and  to  bring  dow^n  the  judgments  of  God  upon  us, 
for  'by  reason  of  swearing  the  land  mourneth,'  But  be 
not  deceived:  our  Church  has  no  principles  that  lead  to 
swearing  more  than  the  dissenters ;  but,  whatever,  Church 
is  uppermost,  there  are  always  a  great  many  who,  having 
no  religion  at  all,  crowd  into  it  and  bring  it  into  disgrace 
and  disreputation ;  but  the  time  is  coming  that  the  tares 


IMatoHeal  Notes  73 

must  be  separated  from  the  wheat ;  and  they  shall  be  cast 
with  the  evil  one — the  devil  that  loved  them— into  hell; 
but  the  angels  shall  carefully  gather  the  wheat  into  God's 
barn.  If  ye  know  these  things,  happy  are  ye  if  ye  do 
them." 

On  the  Vanity  of  Apparel 

"I  doubt  not  but  it  was  designed  to  cast  a  slur  upon 
the  vanity  of  apparel,  since  it  is  a  thing  of  so  little  estima- 
tion in  the  sight  of  God  that  He  bestows  it  in  the  highest 
degree  on  the  meanest  of  his  creatures.  For  it  is  to  be 
presumed,  had  it  been  a  thing  of  any  great  worth  in  itself, 
instead  of  bestowing  these  admirable  varieties  of  colors, 
gildings,  and  embroideries  upon  tulips,  He  would  have  be- 
stowed them  upon  creatures  of  higher  dignity.  Whereas, 
on  mankind  He  has  bestowed  but  very  sparingly  of  these 
gaudy  colors  and  features ;  a  great  part  of  them  being 
black,  a  great  part  of  them  being  tauny,  and  a  great  part 
being  of  other  wan  and  dusky  complexions,  show  that  it 
is  not  the  outward  gaudy  beauty  that  He  values,  but  the 
ornaments  of  the  mind — Christian  graces  and  virtues — 
which,  in  His  sight,  are  of  great  price." 


HppcnMx 


Hppenbii:  H 


HE  following  notes  give  an  account  of  the  In- 
duction controversy  mentioned  on  page  23. 

**'Ok  foUowing  from  Sir  edward  l^ortby, 
Kmgbt,  bcr  Majesty's  (Queen  Hime's)  Httor- 
ney-General  for  the  Colony,  given  tn  the  pre- 
ceding year,  opens  the  case  between  the  Testry 
and  Ml**  OThateley.    It  is  his  opinion— 

^On  consideration  of  ye  Laws  of  Tirginia 
provision  being  made  by  an  act  Intituled 
Church  to  be  built  or  Chapel  of  6ase,  for  the 
building  a  Church  in  Gach  parish,  and  by  the 
act  intituled  Ministers  to  be  Inducted:  that 
Ministers  of  each  parish  shall  be  inducted  On  ye  presentation 
of  ye  parishioners.  Hnd  ye  Church  CQlardens  being  by  ye 
Hct,  Instituted  Church  Cdardens  to  keep  ye  Church  in  re- 
pair, and  provide  Ornaments,  to  Collect  ye  Minister's  dues, 
and  by  ye  act  for  the  better  support  &  maintenance  of  ye 
Clergy,  provision  being  made  for  ye  Ministers  of  ye  parishes, 
and  by  ye  said  act  for  inducting  Ministers,  ye  ©ovemour  be- 
ing to  Induct  ye  Ministers  to  be  presented,  and  thereby,  be 
being  constituted  Ordinary  and  as  Bishop  of  ye  planticon, 
and  with  a  power  to  punish  Ministers  preaching  Contrary 
to  ye  Law— I  am  Of  Opinion  ye  Hdvowson  and  right  of 
presentation  to  ye  Churches  is  subject  to  the  Law  of  6ng- 
land,  (there  being  no  express  Law  of  that  plantation  made 
further  concerning  the  same.)  Cherefore  when  the  Parish- 
ioners present  thicr  Clerhe,  and  he  is  Inducted  by  ye  6ovcr- 
nour,  (who  is  to,  and  must  Induct  On  ye  presentation  of  ye 
parishioners,)  the  Incumbent  is  in  for  his  life,  and  Cannot 
be  displaced  by  ve  parishioners.— If  ye  parishioners  do  not 
present  a  Minister  to  the  Oovemour  within  six  months  after 
any  Church  shall  become  Toyd,  Che  ©ovemour  as  Ordinary 
shall  &  may  Colbte  a  Clerke  to  said  Church  by  Law;  and 
his  Collatee  shall  hold  ye  Church  for  his  life.  If  ye  parish- 
ioners have  never  presented,  they  have  a  reasonable  time  to 


Induction  Contro\>cr9y  77 

present  a  Minister^  but  tf  they  will  not  present,  being  required 
so  to  do,  the  ©ovemour  may  also,  in  their  default,  Collate  a 
Minister.  In  inducting  Ministers  by  ye  Govemour  On  ye 
presentation  of  ye  parish,  or  on  bis  own  Collation,  he  is  to 
see  the  Ministers  be  qualified  according  as  that  act  for  In- 
ducting Ministers  requires.  In  Case  of  ye  Hvoydance  of  any 
Church,  ye  6ovemour,  (as  Ordinary  of  ye  plantation)  is,  ac- 
cording to  the  statute  28:  B  8th,  Cap.  1 1 ,  Sect.  5,  to  appoint 
a  Minister  to  Officiate  till  the  parish  shall  present  one.  Or 
ye  six  months  being  lapsed,  and  such  person  appointed  to 
officiate  in  ye  Vacancy,  is  to  be  paid  for  his  services  out  of 
ye  profitts  thereof  from  ye  time  ye  Church  became  Toyd. 
By  the  Law  above  stated  in  this  case,  No  Minister  is  to 
officiate  as  such  till  he  hath  shewed  to  ye  Govemour  he  is 
qualified  according  as  ye  said  act  directs.  If  the  Testry  do 
not  levie  ye  tobacco  for  ye  Minister,  ye  Courts  then  must 
decree  the  same  to  be  levied. 

''edward  Northy, 
luly  ye29th,  1703.'' 
**'B.t  a  Courcil  held  at  <KliUiamsburg  ye  3d  day  of  March,  [  1 704,] 

present,  Bis  Sxcellency  in  Council, 
dpon  reading  at  this  Board  Sir  Bdward  Northy,  Knight, 
her  Majcsty^s  Httomey  General,  his  Opinion  upon  ye  act  of 
Hssembly  of  this  Colony,  relating  to  ye  Church,  and  par- 
ticularly Concerning  Induction  of  Ministers,— Bis  excellency 
in  Council  is  pleased  to  order  that  a  Copy  of  ye  said  Sir 
€dward  Notthy  his  opinion  be  sent  to  ye  Churchwardens  of 
each  parish  within  this  Colony,  Requiring  them  dpon  ye  re- 
ceipt thereof  forthwith  to  call  a  Vestry,  ii  there  to  cause  the 
same  to  be  read  and  entered  into  ye  Testry  boohs,  to  ye  end 
ye  said  Testrys  may  offer  to  his  excellency  what  they  thinh 
proper  thereupon. 

**^m,  Robertson,  Clerh  Council, 
^ff.  Nicholson.** 

^Sir  edward  Worthy's  Opinion  being  read  to  ye  Testry, 
Mr.  ^ohn  page  is  requested  by  them  to  draw  an  answer  on 
ye  foil:  heads.— Being  without  a  Minister,  have  &  shall  do 
our  utmost  endeavour  to  gett  one. 


78  Xtiductton  Controversy 

"Hs  to  yc  Right  of  presentation  and  Induction,  tbinh  it 
too  deigbty  a  matter  for  ue  to  handle,  but  hope  ye  Cttorsbip- 
fuU  HsBcmbly  Convened  will  tahe  care  for  ye  Clearing  of  yt 
point.'' 

*TMr.  8olonion  CClbately,  it  secnie,  was  not  dieposed  to 
submit  tamely  to  be  thrust  out,  and  accordingly, 

"Ht  a  Testry  held  ye  izd  day  of  May,  1704,  present 
Ris  excellency, 
Mf.  Solomon  CHhatelev,  Minister, 
Col.  Phil  Ludwell,         Mi*,  dm.  pinkethman, 
Mr.  ^obn  Dormer,  Mi*,  dm.  Ransford, 

Capt.  Rugh  JVorwell,  Mi*.  Joseph  Cdbite, 
^Che  petition  of  Solomon  dbateley,  Clerke,  humbly  sheweth 
to  F)is  excellency  ff rancis  Nicholson,  her  Majesty's  Lieutenant 
&r  Governor  General  of  Virginia.— Mav  it  please  your  excel- 
lency, that  upon  ye  death  of  Mi*.  Cope  Doyley,  late  Minister 
of  Bruton  parish,  (lying  part  in  ye  County  of  'tork,and  part 
in  ye  Countv  of  Jamestown,)  the  Testry  of  ye  said  parish 
holding  a  meeting  were  pleased  (without  y,our  petitioner's 
seeking  to  any  of  them,  or  so  much  as  knowing  of  ye 
Vacancy,)  by  Common  Consent  to  make  ye  following  Order." 
fkre  follows  the  order  made  in  Testry  17th  Oct.,  1702,  in- 
viting Ml**  dbateley  to  officiate,  &  desiring  the  Govemour 
to  give  ^the  same  Mi*,  dhateley  leave  to  remove  from  ye 
parish  where  he  is  now  entertained^  and  also  to  invite  ye 
said  Ml*,  dhateley  to  take  upon  him  the  Cure  of  this  parish. 
Hccording  to  which  ye  petitioner,  with  your  excellenc/s 
Consent,  and  also  probation  given  in  form  and  manner  as  in 
ye  said  Order  specified,  presented  himself  at  dilliamsburg, 
where,  to  his  great  surprise,  he  found  ye  said  Testry  by  an 
unaccountable  change  of  mind  in  some  of  them,  divided 
among  themselves  upon  some  causeless  debate  relating  to  ye 
said  Order;  which,  however,  at  last  upon  your  petitioner 
having  been  putt  to  many  unnecessary  troubles  and  expenses, 
at  another  Testry  holden  December  ye  1 3th,  1702,  terminated 
in  ye  order  following:— Sunday,  December  ye  i3th,  1702. 
Ordered  that  ye  Reverend  Mi*.  Solomon  dhateley  be  enter- 


Induction  Controversy  79 

tatncd  IMinistcr  of  this  parish  for  One  'tear,  to  begin  at 
Christmas  next,  allowing  yc  Salary  according  to  Law;  in 
Conformity  to  which  two  Orders  of  Testry,  (though  the 
latter  seeming  very  materially  to  derogate  from  ye  former,) 
Xow  petitioner  at  ye  time  prefixed  entered  upon  ye  said 
Cure,  &  continued  without  any  Ictt  or  impediment  to 
officiate  in  ye  same,  faithfully  discharging  all  ye  duties  and 
affairs  of  his  place  in  ye  said  parish  till  the  tenth  day  of 
ffeb:  last  past,— when,  notwithstanding  \o\xv  excellency 
being  then  known  to  be  at  your  own  home  so  neare  adjoining 
to  ye  Church  where  the  Testry  was  held,  and  being  at  least 
one  of  the  Most  Considerable  Inhabitants  of  the  said  parish, 
^  whose  Consent  one  would  have  thought  might  have  been 
as  necessarily  required  to  the  turning  out  of  the  Minister  as 
it  was  to  the  taking  him  in,  tet  they  were  pleased  to  make 
vc  two  Orders  following**— 

[Rere  follow  the  two  orders,  dismissing  Mi*,  ^hateley, 
after  25th  day  of  March,  and  authorizing  Col.  Ludwell  to 
invite  the  Rev.  Mr.  Grace  to  officiate  in  the  Parish.] 

"Che  said  Rev.  Mr.  Grace  having  indeed  received  the  in- 
vitation Mentioned  in  ye  said  Order,  but  (as  being  a  Gentle- 
man newly  arrived  in  this  province,  &  unacquainted  with 
such  kind  of  proceedings,)  reasonably  judging  it  not  proper 
for  him  to  intermeddle  in  an  affair  which  boare  ye  aspect  of 
so  unlucky  a  precedent  against  himself,— May  it  please  yv 
excellency,  the  case  standing  thus  with  your  petitioner,  he 
could  not  think  it  proper  for  him  to  seek  to  provide  for  him- 
self elsewhere,  until  he  should  have  first  laid  ye  whole  Matter 
before  your  excellency,  to  whose  Inspection  (both  as  Gover- 
nour  and  Ordinary  within  this  province)  he  conceives  things 
of  this  nature  properly  to  Hppertain ;  without  whose  Knowl- 
edge, therefore,  he  could  not  think  it  in  his  own  power  to  dis- 
pose of  himself  elsewhere,— to  whose  disposall,  therefore,  he 
entirely  submits  himself,  humbly  supplicating  your  excel- 
lency's favorable  regard ;  and  not  doubting  but  that  from  so 
Known  a  patron  of  those  that  serve  at  ye  Hltar,  he  shall 
obtain  what  relief  Xo\x  shall  in  "tour  CQisdom  judge  proper 


80  Induction  Controversy 

and  reasonable  to  be  afforded  to  a  person  of  bts  profession 
lying  under  so  sad  and  disheartening  circumstances.    Shall 
'tour  petitioner  (as  in  duty  bound)  allways  pray  for  'V^our 
excellency's  long  life  and  prosperity. 
"You^  excellenc>>'s 

Moat  Bumble  petitioner 

and 
Most  obedient  Servant, 

Solomon  <llhateley/' 

*Xbe  Testry  were  in  a  hard  place.  Mr.  CQhateley's  letter, 
which  is  well  conceived,  and  flatteringly  commended  to  his 
^excellency's'^  consideration,  is  followed  by  the  one  written 
by  Col.  Ludwell  to  the  Rev.  Mr.  Grace,  which  gentleman, 
feeling  it  his  duty  to  conciliate  the  Governor,  had  handed 
Ludwell's  epistle  to  Nicholson.  Ludwell  to  Rev.  Mr. 
Grace  :'* 

**y[orU^  ffeby:  )?e  24, 1704. 
Rev.  Sir,— I  wrote  to  tou  about  a  fortnight  past,  but 
having  heard  nothing  from  "^ou,  X  suppose  it  miscarried, 
therefore  I  send  this  to  acquaint  "tou  that  the  Church  of 
Bruton  parish  being  Tacant,  and  the  Vestry  having  heard  a 
good  character  of  you,  have  desire  i  me  to  invite  "^^ou  to  come 
and  give  them  a  Sermon,  in  order  to  your  being  chosen 
Minister  of  that  parish,  if  they  like:  I  doubt  not  you  will 
maintain  ye  character  Capt.  Rumphreys  hath  given  me  of 
you,  and  should  be  glad  of  so  good  a  Guide.  X  suppose  X 
need  not  Commend  ye  parish  to  "^^ou,  since  every  body  can 
tell  "^ou  it  is  one  of  the  best  in  Virginia.  X  suppose  you  also 
hnow  it  is  ye  parish  wherein  <IIilliamsburg  stands.  X  desire 
to  hear  from  Vou  as  soon  as  maybe.  Xf  you  please  to  Cover 
Vour  letter  to  Mr.  Charles  ChiswcU,  at  ye  Secretary's  Office, 
or  ^Clalter  Cromley,  at  Dr.  Blair's  store,  in  Williamsburg,  it 
will  come  safe  to  me. 

Vour  Most  Bumble  Servant, 

phill.  Ludwelt" 

**Vhi&  letter  X  received  from  Coll.  Ludwell  at  Capt. 


Induction  Controversy  81 

Royairs  house,  Bv  what  band  it  cawc  I  hnow  not.  Some 
days  after  I  went  to  «liUiamsburgb,  and  delivered  it  to  ye 
©ovemour  with  my  own  hands. 

Isaac  6race. 
May  ye  14th,  1704." 

"^CClbereas  CoU.  Ludwell  acquainted  the  above  said  Tcstry 
that  I  sayd,  Upon  his  Invitation  to  that  parish,  I  should 
be  glad  of  so  good  a  one,  if  I  wight  have  it  with  ye  6over- 
nour's  liking,— I  utterly  deny  I  ever  said  any  such  thing. 
Che  substance  of  My  Hnswer,  to  ye  best  of  my  remembrance, 
being,  that  ye  6ovemour  had  a  knowledge  of  the  matter,  and 
I  woisld  not  intermeddle  in  it  without  his  Consent.— CdithaU 
retumti^g  Coll.  Ludwell  thanks  for  his  Offer, 

Isaac  Grace. 

May  yc  1 4th,  1 704.^ 

^Immediately  following,  fSficholson  orders  the  record  of 
the  instructions  sent  from  Gngland : 

^^Jind  to  ye  end  ye  ecclesiastical  ^w^sdiction  of  ye  said 
Lord  Bishop  of  London  may  take  place  in  that  our  Collony, 
so  far  as  Conveniently  may,  we  do  think  fit  that  Xow  do 
give  all  Countenance  ai^d  encouragement  of  ye  exercise  of  ve 
Same,  excepting  only  yc  Collating  to  Benefices,  Granting 
L>>censes  for  Marriages  and  probate  of  wills,  which  we  have 
reserved  to  '^ou  our  Govemour  as  the  Commander  in  Chief 
of  our  said  Collony  for  ye  time  being. 

"Che  above-written  is  one  of  her  Majesty's  Royal  In- 
structions, bearing  date  yc  1 2  day  of  December,  1 702,  and 
sent  to 

ffr.  INficholson. 

*^'^cu  arc  not  to  prefer  any  Minister  to  any benefit  in 

that  our  Colony  without  a  Certificate  from  ye  Right 
Reverend  father  in  God,  yt  Lord  Bishop  of  London,  of  his 
being  Conformable  to  the  Doctrine  and  discipline  of  ye 
Church  of  england,and  of  a  good  life  and  Conversation:  and 
if  any  person  already  preferred  to  a  Benefice,  shall  appear  to 
yiou  to  give  scandal,  either  by  his  Doctrine  or  Manner,  '^ou 


82  Xnductton  Controvcrey 

arc  to  U9C  Xoitr  best  means  fof  removal  of  htm,  and  to 
supply  ye  Vacancy  in  such  manner  as  we  have  directed. 

'''^ou  are  to  give  Order  further  (if  ye  same  be  not  already 
done)  that  cvity  orthodox  Minister  within  Yoiir  Govern- 
ment be  one  of  ye  Testrv  in  his  respective  parish,  and  that  no 
Testry  be  held  without  him,  except  in  Case  of  8ichness,  or 
that  after  JVotice  of  a  Testry  Summoned,  he  omit  to 
come. 

^"^ou  are  to  enquire  whether  there  be  any  Minister  within 
your  Government  who  preaches  and  administers  the  Sacra- 
ments in  any  Orthodox  Church  or  Chapell  without  being  in 
due  Orders,  and  to  give  an  account  thereof  to  ye  Lord  Bishop 
of  London. 

**XIhcQC  are  three  of  her  Most  Sacred  Majesties  Royal 
Instructions,  bearing  date  ye  12th  day  of  Oecember,  1702, 
and  sent  to 

ffra.  Nicholson.'' 

"Ht  a  Testry  held  ye  third  day  of  ^^une,  1704, 
Ml**  Sim.  I^imson,        Capt.  Rugh  Norwell, 
Mr.  ^m.  F>ansford,      Mr.  ^foseph  <Xlhite, 
Colt  phiU  Ludwell,       Mr.  John  page. 
Mr.  John  Dorman, 

^dbereas  the  foregoing  entry,  bearing  date  yczzd  day  of 
May,  1704,  appears  on  Record  as  though  they  were  entered 
by  order  of  Testry,  the  Testrymen  therein  Mentioned,  do 
declare  that  the  said  entrys  were  not  made  by  Order  of 
the  Testry,  but  by  Ris  excellency's  immediate  Command  to 
the  Clark.  Mr.  Solomon  ^hateley  came  into  the  Testry 
and  made  the  following  Terball  proposition  to  this  Testry, 
(to  wit)— ^hat  X  have  done  Is  in  obedience  to  his  excel- 
lency's Command,  &  I  have  never  said  to  any  person  that  I 
have  a  right  to  this  parish,  nor  do  I  insist  on  a  right  to  it.— 
Mr.  ^Hlhateley  likewise  declared  he  preached  by  ycGovemour's 
Command. 

It  being  so  late  in  ye  day  that  ye  Testry  have  not  time 
to  consider  of  what  was  entere  l  in  this  Book  by  his  excel- 
lency's Command  On  ye  22d  day  of  May  last,  &  that  of 


Induction  Controversy  83 

what  Mr.  (iHbatclcy  bath  now  said,  It  is  ordered  that  ye  con- 
aidcracon  thereof  be  referred  to  ye  Next  Testry.** 

'Xbc  following  address  from  tbe  Vestry  to  Governor 
Nicbolson  was  spread  upon  record  at  tbe  same  meeting ; 

*^|VIay  it  please  '^our  excellency— 
^e  bave  Sir  Gdward  IVortby's  Opinion  before  us  Con- 
cerning ye  Rigbt  of  presentation  and  Induction  of  Minis- 
ters, witb  an  order  of  Council  thereupon,  by  which  find  some 
replyes  expected,— but  it  being  a  Matter  of  too  great  height 
&  Consequence  for  us  to  determine.  Cannot  but  hope  yi 
Rexnsall  of  ye  Laws,  and  ye  <3[lorsbipful  Hssembly,  bave  and 
will  take  such  care  as  may  effectually  conduce  to  ye  cloosing 
those  heads  and  all  others  in  relation  to  them,  to  ye  future 
ease  and  satisfaction  of  all.  Hnd  to  tbe  end  our  present 
want  of  a  Minister  may  be  no  way  imputed  to  our  Negli- 
gence, think  it  not  amiss  to  acquaint  \r  excellency  our 
utmost  Sedulity  hath  not  been  wanting  to  procure  one,  and 
hope  the  little  chance  in  this  country  will,  in  some  sort, 
excuse  our  delay,  together  with  ye  refusal  of  one  whom  we 
desired  to  entertain.  Qle  shall  also  use  our  Sincere  en- 
deavours to  supply  ye  Tacancy,  and  give  due  obedience  to 
Law.  mc  arc,  with  all  submission,  Yv  excellency's  most 
bumble  and  obedient  servants, 

Signed  by  all  ye  Testry.'' 

*^On  the  1 2th  'jfune,  1704,  the  Churchwardens  were  cm- 
powered  to  procure  a  Minister,  and  the  subjoined  declaration 
was  also  put  upon  record: 

"^Slhereas  Mr.  Solomon  Slhatcley  hath  of  late  preached  in 
this  Parish  (which  for  some  time  before  be  had  foreborc  to 
4o,)  this  Testry  do  declare  that  he  doth  it  not  any  way  witb 
their  consent  or  approbation,  and  that  they  think  themselves 
no  way  obliged  to  pay  him  for  yc  same.''  Mr.  Slhateley  de- 
livered, on  the  same  day,  into  the  hands  of  Philip  Ludwell, 
Churchwarden,  the  sum  of  ten  pound,  charity  money,  which 
was  in  his  hands;  and  before  adjournment  the  following  was 
recorded: 


84  Induction  Controversy 

'^'^func  yc  twelfth,  1 704, 
entered  by  Command  of  fits  e;cceUency, 
CoU:  pbtt  Ludwell,  )  ^^      Mr,  Ofohn  Page, 

f/lr*  ^tlliam  pinketbman, )  Mk  Qlm.  Ctmaon, 

Mi*»  Renry  tTyler,  Mi*.  ^Hm.  Raneford. 

Capt.  Rugb  jVorwell, 
"Hs  to  ye  Number  of  Testrymen  that  Mett  yc  22  day  of 
May  last,  there  were  six  beside  X^  Minister,  which  his 
excellency  "^^e  Govemour  declares  to  be  a  Testry,  being  six, 
the  Major  part  of  eleaven;  &  Coll.  Ludwell  affirmed  that  six 
was  not  ye  Major  part,— but  to  make  no  dispute  ye  Minister 
being  present. 

**Che  Testry's  answer  to  Sir  edward  jVorthy's  Opinion, 
and  ye  order  of  Council  being  read  out  of  ye  Booh,  his  ex- 
cellency was  pleased  to  Command  all  ye  Gentlemen  of  ye 
Testry  to  attend  him  att  the  Royal  College  of  William  and 
Mary  on  Monday,  ye  nineteenth  of  this  Instant,  about  ten 
o'clock.  f)er  Majest/s  Httomey  General,  Mi*»  <Oharton,  and 
Mi*»  f>olloway  being  gone  to  ye  County  Court.'* 
On  the  19th  day  of  february,  1705, 
^^hereas  there  was  an  Information  exhibited  by  ye  last 
General  Court  by  the  Httomey  General  in  behalf  of  her 
Majesty  against  ye  Testry  of  this  parish,  and  writs  there- 
upon being  issued.  Commanding  ye  appearance  of  ye  Vestry- 
men therein  named  to  Hnswer  ye  said  information  ye  Next 
General  Court,  the  Testry  doc  think  fitt  to  desire  &  Im- 
power  Coll.  Philip  Ludwell  and  Mi*»  ^m.  pinkethman,  ye 
present  Churchwardens, — to  defend  and  manage  ye  said 
suit.** 

^^Che  following  will  show  that  while  there  was  a  disposi- 
tion on  the  part  of  Gowmor  Nicholson  to  conciliate  the 
Testry,  yet  the  course  pursued  bv  that  worthv  functionary, 
in  regard  to  the  forcing  upon  them  the  Rev.  Mi**  Slhateley, 
had  not  been  forgotten  on  their  parts;  and  though  they  accept 
the  gift  of  ^^his  excellency,''  it  is  done  with  such  a  sly  in- 
sinuation that  one  cannot  help  thinking  they  understood  him 
and  his  motives  better  than  he  suspected. 


Xitductton  Controvcroy  85 

"Ht  a  Tcatry  held  for  Bniton  parieb  yc  Ttb  Huguet,  1 705,^^ 

**V>\Q  excellency  the  Govcmour  sending  to  this  Testry 

(by  ye  band  of  Mr.  ^m.  Robertson)  Hn  Hltar  Clotb  and 
Cusbton  as  a  present  for  ye  use  of  ye  parisb,  together  witb 
fiftv  sbiUings  for  ye  use  of  ye  poor^  and  desiring  ye  said  gift 
of  fifty  sbiUings  might  be  recorded  in  the  Testry  booh  as 
being  bis  Cxcellenc/s  usuall  quarterly  gift ;  and  also  what 
bis  excellency  hath  formerly  given,  together  with  an  account 
bow  ye  same  bath  been  disposed  of,— "Che  Testry  return  this 
answer  by  Mr.  Robertson^  (viz*)  ^e  return  bis  excellency 
many  thanks  for  ye  Hltar  Clotb,  and  also  for  ye  fifty  shill- 
ings now  sent— which  we  assure  his  excellency's  shall  be 
registered ;  but  not  knowing  it  to  be  bis  exccllenc/s  Con- 
stant Custom,  we  cannot  register  it  as  such  without  we 
Imow  att  present  what  his  excellency  hath  given  to  the  poor; 
but  we  do  promise  to  examine  that  matter  against  ye  next 
Testry,  and  what  appears  to  us,  then  shall  be  registered*'' 

patience,  perseverance,  and,  doubtless,  prudence  on  the 
part  of  Mr.  <ilbatelev,  together  with  a  show  of  right  in  his 
favor,  and  gubernatorial  countenance,  at  last  wrought  a 
change  in  the  minds  of  the  Testry,  and  accordingly  like  those 
who  felt  it  was  **good  and  pleasant  for  brethren  to  dwell 
together  in  unity,"  on  the  25tb  October,  1705,  the  Testry 
made  the  following  order,  reserving  however  those  ^inalien- 
able rights"  which  subsequent  yeav ..  incorporated  in  the  great 
Declaration  of  Hmerican  Independence. 

'^Ht  a  Testry  held  for  Bruton  parish  ye  25th  October, 
1 705t  present— 

phiU  Ludwell,  esq.  )  ^^      Mi',  lohn  Page, 

Mr.  Cttm.  pinkcthman,     i  Capt.  Sim.  Cimson, 

edmunds  Jennings,  esq.  Mr.  OTm.  Ransford, 

Captain  Rugh  IVorwell,  Mr.  ffred:  ^ones, 

*^iZh€  Testry  taking  into  consideration  that  Mr.  Solomon 
Slhatelev  hath  been  serviceable  to  ye  parish  in  reading  Divine 
Service,  and  also  in  preaching  severall  Sermons,  from  ye 
first  of  May,  1704,  to  this  time,  and  though  be  did  not 
officiate  by  ye  direction  or  approbation  of  ye  Testry,  "^et  it 


86  Induction  Contro\>cr87 

bctng  thought  fitt  yt  he  should  have  eomc  eatisfacttonforhis 
trouble,— the  Tcatvy  hath  agreed  to  give  ye  said  Mr. 
CQhatelcy  Sixteen  thousand  pounds  of  Cobaao  and  Cashe, 
as  a  gratuity  for  all  past  service  to  this  time,~and  the 
Testry  have  thought  fitt  to  propose  to  ye  said  Mr.  <llhateley 
to  Officiate  as  Minister  of  this  Parish  from  this  time  to  ye 
first  of  May  Next,  provided  Nevertheless  that  any  thing 
herein  contained  shall  not  be  construed  as  the  Tcstry's 
otvning  Mi*.  Slhateley  to  be  Minister  of  this  Parish  for  ye 
time  past.    Mi*,  ^hateley  agreed.** 

^'Htt  a  Vestry  held  ye  fifth  day  of  December,  1706,  Mr. 
Solomon  dbateley,  Mr.  mm.  Ransford,  and  Mr.  Joseph 
dhitc,  having  desired  to  tahe  ye  oath  appointed  to  be  taken 
instead  of  ye  oaths  of  HUegiance  and  Supremacy,  Che  presi- 
dent of  Rer  Majesty's  Council  did  this  day  administer  the 
same,  and  they  subscribed  the  Cest.** 

Che  period  had  arrived  when  Mi*.  CClhateley  was  called 
to  '*go  the  way  of  all  flesh,**  and  it  must  have  gladdened  the 
heart  of  the  old  grey-haired  Minister,  that  although  at  his 
election  in  1705,  it  was  specified  he  should  be  employed  only 
until  the  next  May,  he  was  permitted  to  remain  in  uninter- 
rupted occupancy  until  *^death  did  them  part.***  Vhc  last 
Testry  he  attended  was  held  the  14th  September,  1710,  ani 
at  a  Testry  held  20th  November,  1710,  his  decease  is 
announced. 

**Mr.  John  page  having  acquainted  the  Testry  that  be 
hath  removed  out  of  this  parish,  A  desiring  ye  Testry  to 
appoint  Hnother  in  his  room,  they  have  thought  fitt  to  make 
choice  of  Mi*.  David  Bray,  ^.**t 

'  For  more  of  Mr.  Whateley  and  '"other  clergy"  who  figured  in  the 
Colony  at  and  about  this  time,  see  Dr.  Hawks'  "Colonial  Church 
Papers,"  in  Church  Review  for  1851. 

t  Both  of  these  gentlemen  were  distinguished  in  their  day  and  gen- 
eration. The  first  named  held  prominent  office,  (was  subsequently  Gor- 
emor,)  and  retiring  from  active  public  life,  married  Mary  Mann,  an 
heiress  of  Gloucester,  and  built  "Rosewell,"  the  famed  seat  of  elegance 
and  hospitality  for  more  than  a  century.  Mr.  Bray  filled  several  offices 
of  trust  and  honor. 


Hppenbii  B 

lEpttapbs   anb    Unscdptions    on 

^ural  ICablets  anb   ^omb:» 

stones  in  Bruton  (parish 

Cburcb  anb  Cburcb  l^arb 

from  1678  to  1800 


HE  following  inscriptions  from  the  mural 
tablets  in  Bruton  Church,  and  from  the 
tomb-stones  in  Bruton  Church  yard,  from 
1678  to  1800,  were  published  in  Vol.  XI,  of 
Virginia  Historical  Society  collections  in 
1891,  by  Professor  J.  L.  Hall,  Ph.  D.,  of 
William  and  Mary  College.  The  foot  notes 
appended  were  inserted  by  Mr.  R.  A.  Brock, 
the  Corresponding  Secretary  and  Librarian 
of  the  Society.  We  are  glad,  liy  the  kind  per- 
mission of  these  gentlemen,  to  make  use  of 
this  material,  for,  as  Dr.  Hall  remarks,  "the 
hand  of  time,  and  of  the  vandal,  more  re- 
morseless than  time,  is  fast  chipping  away  our  sepulchral 
marbles."  Some  of  the  inscription  copied  then  could  not 
now  be  taken  from  the  tombs  with  the  same  degree  of  ac- 
curacy. To  theseinscriptions  published  in  1891  afew others 
of  special  interest,  though  of  later  date,  have  been  added. 
It  is  unfortunate  that  an  "Association  for  the  Pre- 
servation of  Virpinia  Antiquities"  was  not  formed  long 
years  ago.  By  the  thoughtful  and  loving  care  of  the 
Society  now  in  existence,  what  remains  of  the  ancient 
past  is  being  carefully  guarded  and  preserved  ;  but  many 
monuments  of  the  olden  days  were  destroyed  before  in- 
terest in  their  preservation  was  aroused.  There  are  per- 
sons, now  living  in  Williamsburg,  who  remember  when 
there  were  many  monuments  in  Bruton  Church-yard 
which  now  no  longer  remain. 


88  Cablets  in  Bniton  Church 

Uablete  in  Bruton  Cbuvcb 


Zhc  Iparl^e  fIDural  tlablet 

Near  thta  jMarblc  Lyce 
yc  rk>nblc  Oankl  pafkc 
of  y^  County  of  Gsscx  Seq  who 
was  one  of  bis  Ma:^^^®  Counsellers 
and  some  time  Secretary  of  the 
CoUony  of  Tirg:^  be  Died  y^  6th  of 
March  Hmio  1 679 
fHs  other  felicityes  ware  Crowned  by 
bis  happy  Marridg  with  Rebbecha 
the  daughter  of  6eorgc  Bvclyn 
of  the  County  of  Surry  Gsq  she  dyed 
the  z^  of  lanuary  Hnno  1 672  at  Long 
Dttton  in  y<  County  of  Surry  and 
left  behind  her  a  most 
hopefuU  progeny' 


Zbc  ®rlan^o  3once  tablet,  in  atelc 

I>ere  lies  in  hope  of  a  Blessed  Resurrection 

the  Body  of  M^  Orlando  lones  Son  of  M 

Rowland  lones,  some  time  Minister  of 

this  parish,    he  was  bom  December  y<^  3 1  s^  1 681 

and  Died  lune  y^  12^*^  1719  in  y«  38^'^  year  of  his 

Hge.    he  was  twice  Married  his  first  Slife  wa[s] 


I  Colonel  Daniel  Parke  had  issue :  two  daughters — Francis,  who 
married  John  Custis ;  and  Lucy,  the  first  wife  of  Colonel  William  Byrd 
of  "Westovcr,"  the  second  of  the  name.  Colonel  Parke  went  to  Eng- 
land, where  he  was  appointed  an  aid-de-camp  to  the  Duke  of  Marl- 
borough ;  was  with  him  at  the  battle  of  Blenheim,  and  was  selected  to 
convej-  the  news  of  that  memorable  victory  to  Queen  Anne.  He  was 
subsequently  appointed  Governor  of  the  Leward  Islands,  and  was  slain- 
in  an  insurrection  there. — R.  A.  Brock. 


Cablcte  in  Bniton  Cbui*cb  89 

M'^  Martha  Macoti'  Daughter  of  M^  0idcon 

Macoti  of  New-Kent  by  whom  he  left  one 

Son  learned  Lane  A  one  Daughter  Named 

frances,  hts  Second  Cttife  was  M^®  Mary 

^tUtame^  Daughter  of  lames  WiUtams 

of  King  &  Queen  County,  who  Greeted  this 

Monument  to  his  Memory. 


Zhc  Cocf^e  riDural  ^Tablet 
MDLccm 

Inscribed  to  the  Memory  of 

Dr.  Cailliam  Coche, 

Hn  6ngHsb  physician,  Bom  of  reputable  parents 

MDCLXXII 

at  Sudbury  in  Suffolk, 

and  Bducated  at  Queen^s  College,  Cambridge, 

Re  was  learned  and  polite, 

of  indisputed  Skill  in  his  profession, 

of  unbounded  Generosity  in  his  practice : 

which  multitudes,  yet  aliw,  can  testify. 

f)e  was,  many  years,  of  the  Council 

and  Secretary  of  State,  for  this  Colony 

In  the  Reign  of  Queen  Hnne  &  of  King  George 

Re  died  Suddenly,  sitting  a  5wdge  upon  the  Bench 

of  the  General  Court  in  the  Capitol: 

MDCCXX 

Bis  Rom  friend  Hlex^  Spotswood,  Gsq^  then  Gov^ 


28  She  was  married  January  31,  1703;  died  May  11,  1716,  and  is 
buried  at  the  Macon  homestead  in  New  Kent  county.  Her  daughter 
Frances  is  said  to  have  been  the  wife  of  Colonel  John  Dandridge  and  the 
mother  of  Martha  (Dandridge-Custis)  Washington.  Gideon  Macon,  bj 
tradition,  was  at  one  time  the  Secretary  of  Sir  William  Berkeley.  He 
was  for  a  time  an  Indian  interpreter.  The  Christian  name  of  his  wife 
was  Martha.  Colonel  John  Dandridge  died  in  1756,  aged  fifty-six  years. 
His  tomb  is  in  St.  George's  church-yard,  Fredericksburg,  Virginia. — 
R.  A.  Bkock. 


90  Cablets  in  Bnitoti  Chuftb 

with  the  prtnctpal  ©cntUmcti  of  the  Country, 

attended  bis  funei^U 

and,  weeping,  eaw  tbe  Corps  Interred 

at  tbe  dest  side  of  tbe  HIter, 

in  tbis  Cburcb.^ 


ZTbe  Z^lcv  flDural  tablet 

In  Memoriam. 
neNRt  C^LGR,  8R.  &  RGNRt  C^LGR,  JtL 

Vestrjmicn  &  hardens  of  Bniton 

Cburcb  &  parisb. 

7obn  Cyler  &  eiizabetb  Low,  parents  of 

loanna  Cyler-jMcKenzie  &  lobn  Cyler 

tbe  Marshall  of  tbe  Colony  of  Ta*: 

&r  Hnne  Contesse,  parents  of 

3fobn  Cvler, 

patriot,  0o\>V,  ludge  of  tbe  Hdmiralty, 

Supreme  &  CL  S.  Courts  of  Ta^ 

&  Mary  Hrmistead, 

of  Buch-Rowe,  parents  of 

^obn  Cyler, 

Student,  Visitor,  Rector  &  Chancellor 

of  <Klm.  &  Mary  College: 

©ov'r.  Member  of  Congress,  Senator, 

Tice  president  and  president  of  tbe  dnited 

States,  Member  of  Confederate  Congress: 

&  Laetitia  Christian,  parents  of 
Robert  Cyler,  poet,  philosopher.  States- 
man, Gentleman,  Samuel  Cyler,  H.  B.,  LL.  D» 
Chancellor  of  tbe  State  of  Ta,, 


3  Dr.  Cocke  married  Elizabeth,  sister  of  Mark  Catesby,  tbe  natural- 
ist, and  had  issue,  whose  descendants  include  the  namts  of  Archer,  Bat- 
taile,  Bockner,  Dudley,  Gregory,  Hansford,  Holliday,  Jones,  Laughlin, 
Montgomery,  Taliaferro,  Taylor,  Washington  and  others.  His  widow- 
married  secondly  Colonel  John  Hollo  way ,  an  eminent  lawyer  of  Williams- 
burg, Virginia.  She  died  March  4,  175.'i,  aged  74  years. — R.  A.  Brocs:. 


Cablets  tti  Bniton  Cfnircb  91 

Grandson  of  the  Marshall 

Chis  tablet  is  erected  by  some 

of  their  Descendants: 

Tune  1888,  H.D. 


Governor  yrancia  fauquier 

cinder  the  church,  doubtless,  were  buried  many  to  whom 
no  stone  was  erectecL  Governor  fauquier  was  buried  under 
the  north  wing  of  the  church,  but  no  monument  to  him  re- 
mains. F)is  death  and  obsequies  are  described  in  the  Tirginia 
Gazette  of  March  3,  1768,  as  follows: 

^'Garly  this  morning,  died  at  the  palace,  after  a  tedious 
illness,  which  he  bore  with  the  greatest  patience  and  forti- 
tude, the  J>on.  frands  f auquier,  6sq^  Lieutenant-Governor 
and  Commander-in-Chief  of  the  Colony,  over  which  he  has 
presided  near  ten  years,  much  to  his  own  honor,  and  the 
ease  and  satisfaction  of  the  inhabitants.  Tk  was  a  gentleman 
of  the  most  amiable  disposition,  generous,  just  and  mild, 
and  possessed,  in  an  eminent  degree,  of  all  the  social  virtues. 
fk  was  a  fellow  of  the  Royal  Society,  and  died  in  his  65th 
year.'* 


Zl)c  Miiimcv  riDural  Za\>\ct 

In 

Memory 

of 

the  Rev'd.  dilliam  R.  «lilmer,  D.  O., 

whose  eminent  talents  and  exemplary  piety 

enabled  him  to  fill  with  dignity 

the  important  stations  of 

Rector  of  this  Church 

pi*esident  of  <ilm.  &  Mary  College 

president  of  the  Rouse  of  Clerical 


92  Cablet©  in  Bniton  Church 

and  Lay  Deputies  of  the  IcVoteatant 

episcopal  Church. 

fk  was  beloved  in  private 

Respected  and  honored  in  public  Life 

H  Sound  Devinc 

H  faithful  Pastor 

H  sincere  and  practical  Christian 

Bom  in  Chester-Cown,  Maryland, 

March  9th,  1784 

Died  luly  24th,  1827 

"Chis  Monument  is  erected  by  the  Congregation 

and  Christians  of  other  denominations 

in  testimony  of  their  profound  respect 

and  ardent  affection 

for  the  deceased. 


Confe^eratc  SolMcre  ilDemoiial  (IDural  tablet 

On  the  wall  of  the  Church,  near  the  south-east  comer 
where  the  old  pulpit  stood,  is  a  marble  tablet  to  the 
memory  of  the  Confederate  soldiers  who  fell  in  the  battle 
of  Williamsburg.    It  is  inscribed : 

In  memory  of 

the 

Confederate 

Soldiers 

who  fell  in  the 

Battle  of  Olilliamsburg 

May  the  5th,  1862 

Hnd  of  those  who  died  of 

the  wounds  received  in 

the  same. 

Chey  died  for  us. 


Uomb*»6tone  UnecripUons 


3obn  IJuille 

Rcrc  Lyc9  the  Corpe  of  ^obn 

tutlU  Merchant  Son  to  Cbomaa 

tutlc  of  Darleitb  in  the  County  of 

D on  Scotland  who  died  at 

CQ burgh  in  Virginia  upon 

the  2 day  of  October  1746  years 

in  the  27th  year  of  bis  H^c. 

JHuminc  et  Tirtute 
[Hrms]  -^ 


3obn  Collett 

Rerc  lyes  the  Body  of 
W  lohn  CoUett 
who  departed  this  Life 
f  cbruary  24^"  1 749,  Hged  52  Xear© 


Mu^b  (S)rr 

F>erc  lyea  the  corps 
of  Rugh  Orr  hammer 
man  in  Williamsburg 
who  died  ^an'ry  6^^  1764 
aged  54  years. 


4  Burke,  "General  Armor>',"  gives  as  arms  of  Yaille,  (London),  and 
Yule,  (Darleitb,  Scotland):  Ar.  on  a  fesse  betw.  three  crescents  sa.  agarb 
or,  branded  gu. 

Crest, — An  ear  of  wheat  ppr.  leaved  vert. 

Motto.  Numine  et  virtute. 

No  criticism  is  intended  in  the  remark  that  Professor  Hall  does  not 
describe  verbally  or  pictorially  arms  appearing  with  the  inscriptions. 
As  he  does  not,  however,  the  editor  can  be  guided  in  annotation  only  by 
such  information  as  he  possesses  and  by  apprehension.  In  the  daily  in- 
creasing regard  for  family  history,  coat-armor  is  an  important  guide  in 
linking  families  with  remote  ancestry. 


94  Comb-stoitw  Inscription* 

Hnn  Charlton 

I>crc  lies  y^ 
Body  of  HNN 
CnHRLt:ON 
wife  of  George 
Charlton  who 
Died  8ep 

in  the 
'tear  of  her 
Hge. 


IRobert  film 

R    [Hrma]    R 

f)ere  Lies  the  Body 

of  Robert  Rae  Merc 

bant  in  falmoutb 

son  of  Robert  Rae 

Gsq^  of  Little  Govan 

near  ©lasgow  in 

North  Britain,  he 

departed  this  Life 

May  30  1 753 

in  the  30  year  of  hia 

Hge. 


nDarv!  1Ricol0on 

Rere  lies 

the  body  of 

Mary  Nicolson 

the  wife  of  Robert  Nicolsow, 


"Comb-stoiK  Inampttons  95 

who  departed  this  life 
Oct.  lo*^  1793, 
In  the  73**  year  of  her  age. 

riDre.  flnn  Burpee 

fkre  sleeps  tn  ^feavis  united  to  fMm 

by  faith  and  the  Graces  of  a  Christian 

life,  all  that  was  Mot^al  of  Mi^.  Hnn  Burgee 

once  the  tender  and  affectionate  CQife 

of  the  Rcv<^  F>enry  3ohn  Burges, 

of  the  Isle  of  Cdight ;  She  died  25**> 

December  1771  in  giving  Birth  to  an 

Infant  Daughter,  who  rests  in  her  Hrms. 

She  here  waits  the  transporting  Moment 

when  the  lilrump  of  God  shall  call  her 

forth  to  6lory.  f)onoui'  &  Immortality, 

Oh  DGHCf)  where  is  thy  Sting? 

Oh  0RHTe  where  is  thy  Tictory? 


Hnn  frank 

Rere  Lyeth  the  Body  of  Hnn 
the  CQife  of  Graham  franh' 

and  Daughter  of  the  Rev**  M^ 
"Cheod®  Staige  who  died  on 

the  feast  of  S^  Hndrew  1759 
Hged  28  years- 


5  These  were,  it  is  believed,  the  parents  of  two  worthy  8ons:  Robert, 
a  surgeon  in  the  army  of  the  Revolution,  and  George  Nicolson,  who  was 
Mayor  of  Richmond  in  1790,  and  subsequently.  One  of  the  daughters 
of  the  latter  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Rev.  George  Woodbridge,  D.  D. ,  so  long 
the  beloved  rector  of  the  Monumental  (Episcopal) church. — R.  A.  Brock. 

*»  Bishop  Meade  ("Old  Churches  and  Families  of  Virginia,"  Vol.  I, 
p.  203)  mentions  Graham  Frank  as  a  merchant  of  London,  and  a  cor- 
respondent of  Rev.  Samuel  Shield  and  of  the  Nelsons. 

7  Rev.  Theodosius  Staige  came,  with  ati  unmarried  sister,  to  Vir- 
ginia, and  was  the  rector  of  St.  George's  parish,  Spotsylvania  county, 
some  time  prior  to  November,  1728,  He  served  also  for  a  time  York- 
Hampton  parish.     Another  sister  (Letitin  Maria  Ann)  had  tnarried  in 


96  ^otnb-9toiK  Inscription© 

nDai*i?  ipurMe 

Rcrc  Lyes  Ititcircd  the 

Remains  of  Mary  purdic  Cttifc  of 

Hlcx^  purdic  printer  who  departed 

Chis  Life  On  Saturdav  y^  28,  of  March 

1 772  in  the  27  year  of  her  age.    She  left 

Behind  her  four  sons  'JaS  f)ugh  Hlcx^ 

and  ^ZliUiam,  and  ^y  her  side  lie  Jane 

a  dear  little  Daughter  who  did  not 

quite  attain  her  second  year.    She 

was  a  virtuous  loving^  frugal  a)td 

discreet  wife,  an  affectionate,  though 

discerning  Mother,  one  of  the  best 

of  Mistresses.    Hs  fMcnd  and  He 

quaintance,  she  possessed  the  Qua 

lifications  which  render  that  Con 

nection  valuable  for  she  was  Sen 

siblc  prudent  Generous  and 

honest  hearted  no  deceit  lay  un 

dcr  her  Xil^ongue.    Rer  husband 

in  Gratitude  for  the  ardent  affection 

she  bore  him  the  genuine  esteem  he 

had  for  her  and  in  'Justice  to  her 

Virtues  caused  this  stone  to  be 

placed  over  her    It  will  on 

day  serve  to  con'^ 


London  Rev.  James  Marye,  a  native  of  Rouen,  Normandy,  France,  the 
ancestor  of  the  well-known  Virginia  family  of  the  name.  (See  Descen- 
dants of,  in  "Huguenot  Emigration  to  Virginia,"  Virginia  Historical 
Collections,  Vol.  V.)  Another  daughter  of  Mr.  Staige  married  Samuel 
Thompson,  Orange  countj',  Virginia,  and  they  had  issue,  among  others 
possibly,  a  son,  William  Staige.  The  name  Staige  is  a  favored  Christian 
name  in  the  Davis  and  other  families  of  Virginia.  A  distinguished  in- 
stance was  the  late  Prof.  John  Staige  Davis,  M  D.,  of  the  University  of 
Virginia. — R.  A.  Brock. 

8  Alexander  Purdie  was  for  years  public  printer  of  the  colony,  and 
the  publisher  in  his  own  name  and  as  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Purdic 
&  [John]  Dixon,  of  The  Virginia  Gazette.— R.  k.  Brock. 


Comb-atone  Insmpttotis  97 

Buchner  Stitb 

fkrc  lyes  the  Bodies  of  [BaCK] 

NeR  sncn^  and  cHx:f)eRi)ve  scirR 

Son  and  Gldcst  Daughter  of 

Stttb  of  JVortbampton  County. 

Buchncr  a  hopeful  "^outh 

Lbom]  the  3^  Day  of  January  1747  [departed] 

the  Life  in  this  City  the 

of  December  1766. 

*  -X-  *  *  * 

died  an  Infant  Gightcen  days  old 

Hlso  the  Body  of 
M^®  Catherine  Blachley  late  of  this  City 

Grandmother  of  the  above  Named  Children 
She  departed  this  Life  the  25*^  Day  of 

October  1771  Hged  73  tears  and  up'wards. 


3amc0  (Brtnlep 

Memento  Mori 
Rcre  lyeth  the  Corps 

of  "jfames  Grinley 
son  of  Hlex^  Grinley 
in  Dunbar  Scotland 

<Xlho  Departed 
this  life  the  1  o  Day 

of  ^fully  1763 
in  the  t3wentyeth 

year  of  his  Hge. 


9  The  children  of  Griffin  and  Mary  (Blackley)  Stith.  Griffin  Stitb 
was  a  son  of  Drury  and  Susannah  (Bathurst)  Stith,  nephewof  Rev.  Mr. 
Stith,  the  historian,  and  grandson  of  Colonel  John  Stith,  who  patented 
land  in  Charles  City  county  in  1663,  and  was  High  Sheriff  in  1691.— 
R.  A.  Brock. 


98  CoiTib-9tom  InecripHona 

3o9epb  Scrivener 

fkvc  Hcth  the  Body  of  M^*  'Joseph 

Scrivener  who  was  bom  at  Oldney 

iti  Buchitighairidhtre  iti  Bngtand 

and  died  here  the  1 4^^  of  October 

1772  in  the  fiftieth  "^ear  of  fHs  Hge. 


fiDtchael  archer 

Rere  Lies  y^  Body 

of  Michael  Hrcher  <3en^ 

who  was  Bom  y^  29  of  Sept^. 

1681  JVear  Rippon  in  "^orhshire 

Hnd  died  3?«  1  o  of  february  1 726 

in  y^  46  year  of  his  Hge. 

Hlso  loanna  Hrcher 

<Klife  of  Michael  Hrcher  who 

Departed  this  life 

Octo^  1,  1732'° 


3uMth  (Breenbow 

In  memory  of  Judith  Grecnhow 

a  sincere  Christian 

She  died  the  Seventh  day 

of  January  1 765 

and  in  the  29  3?€ar  of  her  age 


10  Michael  Archer  was  clerk  of  James  City  county  from  1719,  and 
perhaps  earlier,  until  his  death.  George  Archer,  believed  to  be  the 
ancestor  of  the  Archers  of  Henrico,  Amelia,  Powhatan  and  other 
counties,  patented  550  acres  of  land  in  Henrico  county,  June  2,  1665 
<Book  V,  p.  69,  Land  Registry.) 


Comb-atone  Insmptione  99 

Row  loved  bow  valued  once  avails  tbee  not" 

Vo  wbom  Related  or  by  whom  begot ! 

H  heap  of  Dust  alone  remains  of  tbee, 

Bo  all  tbou  art,  and  all  tbe  proud  sball  be 


ITbomas  Ibornsb^ 


r>ere  lies  in  bopes  of  a  Blessed 

Resurrection,  tbe  Remains 

of  M''  Ti^bomas  Romsby 

wbo  was  for  many  '^ears 

a  Mercbant  in  tbis  City. 

rk  was  Bom  in  Lincolnsbirc 

in  Bngland, 

'jfanuary  17^^  1702 

and  died  May  27*^  1 772 

tbe  Remains 

of  M^®  Margaret  Romsby 

^ife  of  M^  Cbomas  Romsby 

wbo  died  -February  2 1770 

Hgcd  66  years.^' 


From  a  book-plate  of  William  Archer,  a  descendant,  which  has  been 
preserved,  tbe  famih^  appears  to  have  been  from  Cornwall,  England. 

Frederick  Johnston,  in  his  meritorious  "Memorials  of  Virginia 
Clerks,"  laments  the  destruction  of  the  records  of  James  City  county, 
in  the  burning  of  the  court-house  in  Richmond,  April  3,  1865,  and  com- 
mences his  list  of  clerks  of  the  county  with  Leonard  A.  Henley,  1831, — 
R.  A.  Brock. 

11  Somewhat  mutilated  ;  but  I  have  completed  the  lines  by  reference 
to  Pope. 

12  Thomas  Hornsby  was  highly  esteemed  and  very  successful  as  a 
merchant.  Joseph  Hornsby,  probably  his  son,  was  a  vestrjman  of 
Bruton  parish  in  1774. — R.  A.  Brock. 


100  XTomb-atotK  Inscrtptiona 

le^warb  mott 

[Hmi9] 
Cinder  this  Marble  Rests  y^  Hshcs 

of  Rie  6xccUeiicy  edward  JVott 

Late  Gowmor  of  this  CoUony  who 

In  bis  private  character  was  a  good 

Christian  and  in  his  public  a  good 

Governor  he  was  H  lover  of  Mankind 

3nd  Bountiful  to  his  fViends  By  y^ 

Sanctity  of  his  Moralls  and  y^  Mildness 

prudence  and  justice  of  his  Hdmtnistra- 

tion  he  was  Deservedly  esteemed  H 

public  Blessing  while  he  Lived  &  when 

fk  Dyed  H  public  Callamity.  he  Departed 

Chis  Life  the  23d  Oay  of  Hugust  1706 

Hged  49  'tears. 

In  Grateful!  Remembrance  of  who 

sc  many  Dutyes  the  Generall  Hssembly 

of  this  Collony  have  Greeted  this 

Monument/'^ 


3ainc6  1Ricol0on 

8acred 

to  the  memory  of 

"^ames  jVicolson 

late  steward  of 

William  and  Marys  College 

he  was  bom  in  the  town  of  Invemers 


'3  Edward  Nott  entered  upon  his  duties  as  Lieutenant-Governor 
August  15,  1705.  He  procured  the  passage  by  the  Assembly  of  an  act 
for  the  building  of  a  "palace"  for  the  Governor,  with  an  appropriation 
of £3,000,  also  an  act  establishing  the  general  court;  but  the  last  was 
disallowed  by  the  British  Board  of  Trade.  During  Governor  Nott's 
administration  the  College  of  William  and  Mary  was  destroyed  by  fire. — 
R.  A.  Brock. 


Comb-Stone  Inscriptions  101 

NORCR-BRICHIN 

HNNO1711 
and  died  the  izd  ^^  'Januarv 

1773 

industry,  frugality,  integrity. 

simplicity,  of  manners  and 

independence  of  SOUL 

Hdomcd  bis  Character  and 

procured  bim  Universal  Bstccm 

RenoeR 

Learn  from  tbis  example  tbat 

Hs  tbc  most  exalted  station  may 

be  debased  by  YlCe  so  tbere 

is  no  situation  in  life  on 

wbicb  TIRCae  will  not  confer 


Cbaiies  Munt 

"Co  the  Memory  of 
M^  Cbarles  Runt 
late  of  tbis  parisb. 
Re  died  tbe  1  i^h  d^y 
of  Ocf*  1 794 
Hged  41  tears. 
Regretted  by  all  wbo  hnew  bim. 


Ikatberine  ^horp 

Katberinc  Cborp 

Relich  of  Cap*  r^bomas 

Cborp  JSepbew  to  jMajor 

Otbo  Cborp  formerly 

Inhabitant  of  tbis  parisb 

after  a  pilgrimage  of  forty 


102  Comb-9tom  Inamptions 

three  ycarca  in  a  troublesome 
world  Lay  Downe  here  to 
Rest  in  hope  of  a  JoyfuW 
Resurection  obii^  'Jum  6tb 

1695 


ITboniae  ^borp 

F>ere  lyetb  in  I>ope  of  a  joyfull 

Resurrection  the  Body  of  Cap^ 

Cbomas  I^borp  of  Bruton 

parish  in  the  Dominion  of  Tirginia 

Nephew  of  Maj.  Otho  Chorp 

of  the  same  parish  who  Departed 

in^is  Life  the  7  day  of  October 

Hno  1693  Hged48 


fibwarbus  Barra^aU 

[Hrms]  '* 

B  s  e 

eDCaHRDaS  BHRRHDHLL  Hrmiger 

Qui 

In  legum  studiis  feliciter  versatus 

Httomati  Gencralis  ct  Hdmiralitatis  Xudicis 

Hmplicissimus  Partes  merito  obtinuit 

fndeliter  obivtt 


M  From  a  rough  drawing  in  the  possession  ot  the  editor,  the  arras  of 
Barradall  (tinctures  not  given),  a  bend,  three  pheons,  an  annulet  for 
difference,  are  impaled  with  Fitzhugh — Az. :  three  chevrons  bracedin 
base  of  escutcheon,  or,  a  chief  of  the  last.  William  Fitzhugh,  lawyer, 
planter,  merchant  and  shipper,  the  ancestor  of  the  well-known  family 
of  the  name,  was  born  in  Bedford,  England,  January  9,  1651 ;  settled  in 
that  portion  of  Stafford,  now  comprising  Prince  George  county ;  died 
at  his  seat,  Bedford,  Virginia,  in  October,  1701.— R.  A,  Brock. 


CoTnb-9tonc  Inscnptions  103 

CoUcgiuin  6uUclmt  ct  Mariae 

Cum  ©ubcmator 

Cum  in  Convcntu  Gcncrali  Senator 

Propugnavtt 

SHRHM 

Tiri  Ronorabilts 

6utl  fntzbugb  Hinnigcri 

Scrcntssimac  Rcgtnae  Hnnse  in  Virginia  a  Conailioa 

fnliam  )Vatu  minimam 

Cam  Mortis  quam  Titac  Soctam 

Oxorcm  babuit. 

Obicrunt 

ilU  xm  Cal  lulii  ^  ^  Morrrr  TTT     a^  i  ^^^^ 
ilia  Non  Oct  ^  ^'  ^VCQXUlll      M  ^  ^^^ 

f)ic  iuxta  situs  est 

Rcnricus  Barradall 

e.  B»  supra  dtcti  fVatcr 

Qui 

Obiit  XTIH  Cal  Octob  H.  O-  MOCCXXXTH 

iEtat  XXTH 

Blumficld  Barradall  tantum  fratcr'^ 


The  epitaph  of  iver.  Roland  Jones^  first  rector  of  Bruton 
Parish.  Bishop  Meade  is  not  accurate.  Owing  to  the 
ignorance  of  workmen  recently  employed  in  the  church- 
yard, the  epitaph  is  permanently-  distorted.  The  follow- 
ing is  approximately  correct : 

IRcv^,  1Rolan^us  Hones 

FHc  jacct  Rolandus  loms 

clcricus  filius  Rolandi  'Joxkb 

clcrici  Natus  Swimbrook  juxta 

Burford  in  Comii  Oxoii  Collcgii 

Merton  dnivcrsitatc  Oxoii 


15  Last  tew  lines  so  badly  worn  as  In  lie  illegible. 


104  Comb-stone  Inaonptions 

Hlumnus  parocbiac  Bruton  Tirginia 

pastor  pnmus  A  dclcctisstmus 

funcnonc  pastoral!  antiis  14 

ftdclitcr  d  Parocbtac  quam 

iTiaxtmo  dc  Obiit  Hp  23 

die  iEtatis  suae  48  Hnno  D  1 688 


iTDargarct  Brown 

Rere  Lyes  tbe  Body  of 

Margaret  Brown  wife  to 

Doctor  3fobn  Brown  of  Cdilliamsburg 

late  of  Cold  Stream  JVortb  Britain 

wbo  died  tbe  22^  day  of  Hugust  1720 

in  tbe  36  year  of  Rer  Hge 

prob !  Dolor  quao  f  uit  Clarissimc. 

rkre  Lyes  tbe  Body  of  Ofane  Brown 

Daughter  to  tbe  foresaid  lobn  Brown 

wbo  died  tbe  30  Hugust  1720  tbe 

14  day  of  f)er  Hge. 


^bomae  Xu^weU 

[Hrms]  '^ 

Cinder  tbis  Marble  lietb  tbe  Body 

of  Cbomas  Ludwell  esq** 

Secretary  of  Tirginia,  wbo  was  born 

at  Bruton  in  tbe  County  of  Somerset 

in  tbe  Kingdom  of  eN6LH)SD,  and 

departed  tbis  Life  in  tbe  '^ear  1 678  Hnd 

near  tbis  place  lye  tbe  Bodies  of  Ricbard 


16  The  arms  upon  the  book-plate  of  Philip  Ludwell  of  "Green  Spring" 
are:    Gu,  a  bend  ar.,  three  eagles  displayed  sa.  between  three  towers. 
Motto — Pensieri  stretti  edil  viso  sciolto.— R.  A.  Brock. 


Comb-Stone  Inscriptione  105 

Kemp^  Soq^  bis  prcdccceeor  in  y^  Sccrctarye 

Office''  and  8^  Cbomaa  Lunsford  K^ 

in  Memory  of  wbom  tbia  Marble  is  placed 

by  Order  of  Philip  Ludwell  Gsq^ 

N€pbrw  of  tbe  said  Cbomas  Ludwell 

in  tbe  'Year  1727 


Hobn  (Breenbow 

f)ere  lies 

in  hopes  of  a  joyful 

Resurrection  all  that  was 

mortal  of  lobn  Grcenbow, 

late  of  this  City,  Merchant, 

Re  was  bom  in  Staunton, 

near  Kendal  in  CQestmoreland, 

6reat  Britain,  jSovember  the  12^'' 

1724  &  died  the  zg^^  Hugust  1787, 

after  a  wry  short  Illness. 

On  his  left  side  lies  eiizabeth 


17  Richard  Kemp  was  a  member  of  tbe  Council  oi  Virginia,  1642, 
and  as  its  President  in  June,  1644,  upon  the  departure  of  Sir  William 
Berkeley  for  England,  became  the  acting  Governor  of  the  Colony.  It  is 
notable  that  during  his  incumbency  the  first  fast  and  thanksgiving  days 
in  the  Colony,  of  which  any  record  is  preserved,  were  ordered.  "Att 
James  Cittye  the  17th  of  February,  1644-5,"  it  was  ''« nacted  by  the 
Governour,  Counsel!  and  Burgesses  of  this  present  Grand  Assembly,  for 
God's  glory  and  the  publick  benefit  of  the  Collony  to  the  end  that  God 
might  avert  his  heavie  judgments  that  are  now  upon  vs,  That  the  last 
Wednesday  in  every  month  be  sett  apart  for  a  day  of  ffast  and  humilia- 
tion. And  that  it  be  wholly  dedicated  to  prayers  and  preachmg."  Also, 
"That  the  eighteenth  day  of  April  be  yearly  celebrated  by  thanksgivings 
for  our  deliverance  from  the  hands  of  Salvages."  Referring  to  the  recent 
massacre  by  the  Indians  (Heniag's  Statutes,  I,  pp.  289,290.)  Sir  William 
Berkeley  returning  in  June,  1645,  resumed  the  government  of  Virginia, 
but  Richard  Kemp  continued  to  serve  the  Colony  as  a  member  of  the 
Council  until  1648,  and  perhaps  later,  latterly  as  the  Secretary  of  the 
body.     He  died  some  time  before  1678— R.  A.  Brock. 


106  Coinb-atom  Inampttoin* 

the  Daughter  of  lohn  X^ykv'^ 

his  second  <Klife^ 

who  wae  bom  in  ^fames  City 

the  30^^  7any  1744,  and  died 

of  the  Small  pox  on  luly  the  zi^<^  1 781 

which  she  endured  with  the  greatest 

Christian  fortitude  &  Resignation. 


f)ere  Lyetb 

edward  Dyc^ 

«lho  died  OcCr 

y<6  1722  agd 

1  "^ear  &  7  Mo 

y^  Only  Son  of 

Rob  Dyer  & 

Martha  his 

«life 


3can  Blair 

In  the  adjoining  grave  lies  deposited 

with  her  husband  whatex»er  was  mortal  of 

Ofean  Blair, 

who  was  bom  26th  Oct»*  1736,  O.  8. 

and  died  22"^  J^ov^  1792 

Fkr  conduct  through  life  was  truly  exemplary  and 

amiable  in  discharging  all  the  relative  duties  of  her 

station  as  a  wife,  a  mother  and  a  friend;  and  her  piety 

shone  forth  with  peculiar  lustre  during  a  protracted, 

painful,  and  distressing  illness,  which  she  sustained 


iS  Marshal  of  the  Colon}-  and  grcindfather  of  President  John  Tyler. 

— R.  A.  BsocK. 


Coirib-8tom  Insmpttons  107 

without  a  murtnur^  with  entire  reeignation  and 

acknowledgments  of  the  divine  mercy  and  goodness ; 

and  fervent  prayers  to  be  released^  and^  resign  her 

spirit  to  God  CClho  gave  it. 

Vkrc  lies  interred 

the  body  of  7^«ics  Blair 

son  of  the  Ronnie  ^ohn  Blair  '^ 

a  youth  distinguished  for  the  uniform  purity 

of  his  morals^  accompanied  with  ingenuous  modesty 

and  the  most  winning  mildness  of  temper  and  manners. 

f>e  was  bom  the  9*^  of  ']fune  1770 

and  died  the  25th  of  Ocf  1791. 


Sane  Blair 

SHCRGD  to  the  memory  of 

JBf^Sf  the  youngest  daughter  of 

the  Ronhlc  ^fohn  Blair, 

and  beloved  wife  of  'James  fknderson''" 

Mouitiful  and  with  tears,  he  hath  erected 

this  last  gift  of  love  and  conjugal  affection. 

She  died  19^''  Dec^  1800 

Hged  40  years. 

r>aving  been  distinguished  for  her  piety 

affection,  prudence,  and  suaxnty  of  manners. 

Ht  her  feet  are  deposited  the  bodies 


19  John  Blair,  son  of  Dr.  Archibald  Blair,  and  nephew  of  Rev.Jarnes 
Blair,  D.  D.,  President  of  William  and  Mary  College;  member  of  the 
House  of  Burgesses  in  1736;  long  a  member  of  the  Council,  of  which  as 
Presideut,  he  was  acting  Governor  of  Virginia  for  a  time  in  1758.  His 
son,  Archibald  Blair,  was  Secretary  of  the  Virginia  Convention  of  1776; 
and  another  son,  John  Blair,  a  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States.  A  daughter,  Jane,  was  the  first  wife  of  James  Hender- 
son.— K.  A.  Brock. 

20  James  Henderson  married  secondly .  and  had  issue;  I.James; 

2.  Walter;  3.  Elizabeth.     He  died    in   1818,   and   William    Brown   and 
Alexander  Brow^n  were  his  executors. — K.  A,  Brock. 


108  X^omb-stonc  Inscriptions 

of  bcr  three  infant  children^ 
lames  Blair^  bom  zg^^  Oct  1795, 

and  lived  only  21  days. 

lobn  Blair,  bom  25*^  feby^  1797 

and  died  17^^  Hpril  following,  and 

Blair  Monroe,  bom  so^b  luly,  1800 

and  died  4^*^  May  1801. 


[Hmis]'' 

I>ere  Lyetb  tbe  Body  of 

COLOlVeL  David  Bray 

of  tbis  parisb 

wbo  died  on  y«  21  of  Oct^  1717 

in  tbe  52^  "^ear  of  f)is  Hge 

and  Left 

bis  <Ilife  Juditb  ^  Son  David  Bray 

by  wbom  tbis  Monument  was  Greeted 

in  Memory  of  Rim 

Cinder  tbis  tomb  witb  ber  busband 

Lietb  M^®  luditb  Bray  wbo 

Departed  tbis  Life  tbe  26  Day 

of  October  MDCCXX  in  tbe 

45**^  Tear  of  ber  Hge/* 


21  Az.  a  chevron  between  three  eagles'  legs  erased  a   la  cuisse  sa. 
armed  gn.    Crest  —An  ounce  ppr. — R.  A.  Brock. 

22  James  '  Bray  was  the  first  of  the  name  in  Virginia  of  whom  record 
is  preserved.     He  was  living  in  James  City  county  in  1636,  was  sworn 

a  member  of  the  Council  March  4, 1674-'5  ;  married  Angelica — ,and 

had  issue:  1.  Thomas;^  2.  James, ^J,  P.  of  James  City  county,  1710, 
and  later;  vestryman  of  Bruton  parish;  sheriff,  1717-'1S;  married  in 
or  before  1698  Mourning,  widow  of  Colonel  Thomas  Pettus.  He  had 
(with,  perhaps  other  issue)  a  son,  Thoinas,3  J.  P.  of  James  City  county, 
1738,  who  had  an  only  chile",  Elizabeth,!  who  married  Colonel  Philip 
Johnson,  of  King  &  Queen  county,  and  died  in  1675.  3.  Colone 
David, 2  supra   vestryman  of  Bruton   Parish,  and  J.  P.   of  James  City 


Ccn^etonc  Xnecripttons  109 

James  16ra^ 

[Mrmo] 
Rcrc  Lyctb  in    .    . 
of  lamcB  Br    .    . 

as  Bray  by  whom 
this  Monument  was  Greeted 

Ofatnes  Bray 

1690 


Another  Bray  monument — marble  pyramidal  shaft  on 
a  marble  die,  the  latter  having  handsome  armorial  bearings 
on  two  sides  and  Latin  inscriptions  on  the  other  two.^^ 

Bavit)  Bra)? 
n.  s.  e. 

David  Bray  Hrmiger 

Tir 

forma  Ingenio  Monim  Suaxntate  et  Comitate  Praetor 

Serenissimo  Regi  ©eorgio  Secundo 

Coneiliis  in  Tirginia  constitubus 

Camen  ante  Munus  Suseeptum  florente  iEtate 

Morte  abreptus. 

Glisabetbam 

Xobannis  Page^  Hrminger"'  fnliam  ISatu  primam 


county,  1710.  He  had  issue:  1.  David,  3  intra,  boru  1699;  member  of 
the  council;  died  1731  ;  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John  Page  of 
Gloucester  county.  4.  Angelica, married  Mungolnglis  of  Williamsburg 
the  first  Master  of  the  Grammar  School,  William  and  Mary  College 
(1693-1719.)  His  descendants  intermarried  with  theArmisteads,  Pages 
and  Sheildses. 

The  widow  of  Thomas  Bray  established  a  scholarship  at  William 
and  Mary  College.— R.  A.  Brock. 

23  The  arms  of  Bray  with  an  inescutcheon  bearing  the  Page  arms, 

— R.  A.  Brock. 

24  Errors  in  cutting. 


110  Comb-Stone  Inecriptioiaa 

Sibt  Matninomo  conjuiKtam  habutt 

Mutuo  Hffcctus  cotijumttseiiTiaiii. 

ct  sine  protc  niaci'aitctn  rcUquit 

Octob  5"  1 731  iEtat  iz 

lUa  Hmoria  Conjugalit  extrcwum  ptgnus 

I^c  Monumcntxim  poBuit 


i6li3abetba  Bra\) 

Rtc  X)qyoa\Uim 
Qutcquid  babuit  Mortalc  eitzabctba  Bray 

Clna  cum  Manto  dcaidci^tissimo. 

Quae  languentt  morbo  consumpta  Hnimam 

Restgnavtt  22"  Dte  Hprilis  Himo  1 734 

iEtatis  32'' 

i^uammtter^  f  orttter^  pte. 


lames  Taabalc\> 

Fkre  Hetb  the  Body  of  lames  Slhaley 

of  Yorkc  County  in  Tirginta  who 
departed  tbts  life  the  1 6  day  of  May 
Hnno  Domini  1701  and  in  the  fiftieth 

yeare  of  his  Hge 

Ris  Body  lyes  to  be  Consumed  to  Dust 

Oil  the  Resurrection  of  the  lust 

Hmongst  ^hich  JNfumber  f)eUl  in  hopes  Hppeare 

fMe  blessed  Sentence  at  doomsday  to  heare 


ilDatbew  laabale^ 

^5  Mathew  <KIhaley  lyes  Interred  here 

Within  this  Comb  upon  his  father  dear. 

^ho  Departed 


*5  Square  piece  of  marble  on  the  front  face  of  the  monument. 


Coitib-9tom  Itiscriptiona  111 

this  Life  the  26tH  ©f 

September  1 705  Hged 

Nine  years  only  child 

of  Tames  Cdhaley 

and  Mary  bis  wife 


Fragment  of  Colonel  John  Page's  tombstone,  lyine;  near 
the  west  door  of  Bruton  Parish  church,  within  the  bunding. 

Ilobn  Ipaac 

[Hrms]^ 

Rere  lietb  in  bope  of  a  'JoyfvXX  Resurrection 

tbe  Body  of  Colonel  lobn  Page  of 

Bruton  parisb  Gsquire  one  of  tbcir 

Majesties  Council  in  tbe  Dominion 

[of]  Virginia  w  o  Departed  tbis 

[life  t] be  23  of  [lajnuary  in  tbe  yatr 

[of  our]  Lord  69V2  Hged  65 


aucc  page 

<Zlife  of  Colonel  lobn  Page 

[Hrms]^" 

r>ere  lyetb  tbe  Body  of  Hlice  Page 

wife  to  lobn  page  of  y^  county  of  'York 

in  Virginia  aged  73  yeares  wbo 

departed  tbis  life  tbe  22  day  of  junc 

Hnno  Domini  1 698 


*6  Arms:  An,  a  lesse  dancette  between  three  martlets;  azure,  a  bor- 
dure  of  the  last.    Crest:   A  derai-horse  forcene  (rearing). — R.  A.  Brock. 

27  Colonel  John  Page  married,  about  1656,  Alice  Luckin,  of  county 
Essex,  England.  In  the  "Page  Famih-  of  Virginia,"  bj'  Dr.  R.  C.  M. 
Page,  New  York,  1883,  it  is  stated  (p.  41)  that  the  arms  on  this  tomb 
were  those  of  Luckin :  Sable,  a  fesse  indented  between  two  leopard's 
faces  or.  Crest — A  demi-griffin  or.,  issuing  out  of  a  tower  paly  of  sir 
of  the  last  and  sable. — R,  A.  Brock. 


112  "Comb-stone  Inecrtptiona 

jfrancie  iPaae 

[Hintia] 
fkrc  Iktb  in  hope  of  a  "JovfuW  Resurfcction 

the  Body  of  Captain  francie  Page  of 

Smton  partBh  in  the  Dominion  of  Tirginia 

6lde9t  8on  of  Colonel  lobn  Page  of  the 

Same  pariob,  Gsquire,  Qttbo  Departed 

tbie  life  tbe  tentb  Day  of  May 

in  tbe  Ycslt  of  our  Lord 

1692:  Hged  35 

Cbou  wast  wbile  living  of  Unspotted  fame 

Now  being  Dead^  no  man  Dares  Soil  tby  name 

for  tbou  wast  One  wbom  JSotbing  bere  Could  Stain 

itber  force  of  bonour  nor  Love  of  Gain 

spberes  tbou  bast  well  DiscbargM  tby  trust 

most  truly  pious,  Loyal  lust 

stant  Goodness  my  penn  Cannt  Express 
Tertues  my  tongue  Cannt  Rebcarsc 
steem'd  by  all  tbe  wise  and  Sage 
tby  country  in  tby  age 

we  Cannt  )Vow  Speah  of  tbe 
cet  to  all  postcinty 
Did  to  tow»*9«f  Create 
erlasting  Date 
your  most  bappy  wife 
otber  Life 

flDari?  page 

[Hrms]^*^ 

I>ere  lietb  in  tbe  bope  of  a  OfoyfuU  Resurrection 

tbe  body  of  Mary,  tbe  wife  of  Captain 

francis  page  of  Bruton  parisb  in 
tbe  Dominion  of  Virginia,  Daughter  of 


28  The  editor  has  no  information  as  to  these  arms,  whether  of  Page 
alone  or  impaled  with  those  of  Digges.  The  latter  are :  Gu.  on  a  cross 
ar.,  five  eagles  displayed  sa.  armed  of  the  field.— R.  A.  Brock. 


IToiTib-atom  Inscriptions  113 

edward  Diggs  of  Rampton  parish  in 

the  Same  Dominion^  Bsquirc  who  Departed 

this  life  the  eighteenth  Day  of  March  in 

the  year  of  Our  Lord  169%  Hged  3  [2?] 

Chy  Modest,  meek  and  Pious  Soule  did  Shine 

With  well-Cempered  Nature  and  Grace  Divine 

One  to  excel!  in  beauty  few  Could  finde 

yet  thy  Rarest  features  were  of  the  mindc 

thou  wast  a  faithful  and  Tertuous  wife 

thou  Greatly  Loved  peace  and  hated  strife 

thou  wast  a  prudent  and  tender  Mother 

a  true-loving  sister  to  each  Brother 

a  Choice  friend  a  Kind  IVighbour 

a  good  Christian  ready  at  God's  call 

thou  lived  and  dy'd  upon  Christ  Relying 

thou  Dyd  to  Sin  and  now  Livest  by  Dying 

thy  faith  Doth  >Keld  thy  piety  Doth  Give 

Restoratives  to  mahe  thee  ever  live 

thrice  blest  friend  this  epitaph  is  thy  due 

when  Saints  arise  thy  Lord  will  say  'tis  true. 


[Hrms] 

Rere  lyeth  the  body  of  eiizabeth  page,  dec^ 

late  wife  to  lohn  page  of  Xovhc  fcojunty  Gent. 

and  Daughter  of  [C]apt  francis  Page  late  of  the 

same  County  deceased  she  blest  her  saCid] 

r)usband  w[ith]  H  Sonn  and  Daughter  &  departed 

this  life  the  12  day  of  November  Hnno  Dom  1702 

Hnd  in  the  20  yearc  of  her  age. 


riDre,  ann  Simeon  3once 

Rere  lies  all  that  the  grave  can  claim  of 
Mrs.  Hnn  t;^imson  Ozones 
Consort  of  the 


114  Comb-9toiK  Iii9cnptioin» 

Rev.  Servant  '^foms 
Bom  1 9t  Sept.  1 787 
Married  26  Dec.  1 805 
Baptised  3  Mar.  1822 
Died  lutie  6,  1849. 

If  woman  ever  yet  did  well 
If  woman  ever  did  excell 
If  woman  husband  ere  adored 
If  woman  ever  loved  the  Lord 
If  ever  faith  and  Rope  and  Love 
In  f)uman  flesh  did  live  and  move 
If  all  the  graces  ere  did  meet 
In  her  in  her  they  were  complete 

My  Hnn,  my  all  my  Hngel  ^ifc 
My  dearest  one  my  love  my  life 
I  cannot  sigh  or  say  fare  well 
But  where  thou  dwellest  I  will  dwell. 


In  flDcmori?  of  tbe  Confe^erate  Solbtere 

In  the  church-yard  is  a  monument  to  their  memory 
which  bears  the  following  inscription  : 

Lord  heep  their  memory  green. 

erected  to  the  memory  of  the  Confederate  Soldiers  who 
fell  in  the  Battle  of  (Williamsburg,  May  5th,  1862,  and  lie 
buried  under  and  around  this  monument. 

R.  Crawford,  1 4th  Louisiana  Inf. 

XM.Cary, 

Cdm.  Baldridge,  18th  Mississippi     '' 

lohn  Daisy,      8th  Reg.,  Hlabama      ** 

P.  Dargan, 

C.  p.  parr,   10th  Reg. 
C.R.More,      '*      " 

D.  R.  SlooUey  "       " 


Comb-Btonc  Inecriptions  H"^ 

C.  M.  Blackburn,  i  otb  Rcg^Hlabama  Inf. 

p.  R.  Slrigbt,  1 3tb  Rcg.,|Stb.Car.    "* 

Ol.  D.  Moomy,    "       "        "        "     " 

lames  Bamctt,  i9tb  Reg.,  Ttrgtnia   ** 

7ani«9  Keating,  i  jtb 

«l.L.  Rector,     nth 

R.  K.  Casper, 

O.  8.  C.  lones,     '' 

3.  C.  Grady, 

7.  B.  Cwjmer,    3rd 

JSear  this  monument  arc  six  small  stones  each  inscribed 
C.  S.  H.  May  5tb,  1 662;  and  three  stones  inscribed  as  follows ; 
C.  8.  H.,  8t.  Tobn  Hddison,  Co.  6.,  ijtb  Va.  Regt., 
May  5tb,  1 662. 

C.  8.H.,  Capt.  H.  3.  Humphreys,  Co.  H^  iTtb  Ta.  Regt., 
Killed  at  the  Battle  of  <ailliamsburg,  May  5tb,  1662. 

C.  8.  H.         C.  c  m. 


1Rame0  lenorave^  on  ^omb^Stonee  in  Bruton 

Cburcb  ant)  Cbnrcb  j^avt),  with 

2)atc  of  Deatb 

Michael  Archer,  1726;  Joana  Archer,  1732;  Thomas 
Hugh  Nelson  Burwell,  1841;  Rolandus  Jones,  clericus,  1688; 
David  Meade  Randolph,  1830 ;  Hon  John  Blair,  1800;  John 
Millington,  1868;  his  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Ehzabeth  Lett, 
1847;  Sidney  Smith,  1881;  Virginia  C.  Smith,  1878; 
Delia  Adalaide  Bucktrout,  1857;  Josiah  Nelson  Bucktrout, 
1836;  Richard  Manning  Bucktrout,  1847;  Horatio 
Nelson  Bucktrout,  1854;  Lulie  E.  Dugger,  1870;  Benjamin 
Earushaw  Bucktrout,  1846;  Benjamin  Bucktrout,  1849; 
Mrs.  Catherine  Stephenson,  18(32?);  H.  S.  E.  Edwardus 
Barradall  Armiger,  1743;  Henricus  Barradall,  1737; 
children  of  Henrj-  Washington  and  his  wife,  Cynthia 
Beverly    Tucker,    Lucy    1854;   Sarah   Augustine,    1862; 


116  Cowb-stonc  Itiscripttons 

Catherine  Brooks  Coleman,  1883 ;  Annie  B.  Gilliam,  1900 ; 
Mary  Westwood,  1869;  Mrs.  Ann  Burgess,  1771; 
Catharine  Stith,  1776;  Mrs.  Catharine  Blackley,  1771; 
James  Grinsley,  1763 ;  Robt.  H.  Hord,  1845;  James  Dix, 
1861;  John  Blair,  1792;  James  Blair,  1791;  Edward  B. 
Lindsay,  1855 ;  Jane  Blair  Henderson,  1800;  James  Blair 
Henderson,  1795;  John  Blair  Henderson,  1797;  Blair 
Monroe  Henderson,  1801 ;  George  Bascom  Lindsay,  1860 ; 
Mr.  Charles  Hunt,  1794;  Sarah  Lindsay,  1850;  John 
Greenhow,  1787;  Elizabeth  Greenhow,  1781;  Judith 
Greenhow,  1765;  Mrs.  Francis  Custis,  17H;  Daniel  Parke 
Custis,  1754;  Francis  Parke  Custis,  1757;  Elizabeth 
Henderson,  1813 ;  Revd.  James  Henderson,  1818;  Thomas 
Hamilton  Henderson,  1814;  Elizabeth  Bingham,  1851; 
Ann  B.  Wilmer,  1854;  Captain  Francis  Page,  1692;  Alice 
Page,  1698 ;  John  Collett,  1749 ;  Mrs.  Mary  Francis  Page, 
169- ;     Col.     John     Page,     169|;     Thomas     Hornsby, 

1772;  Mrs.  Margaret  Hornsby,  ;  Margaret  Brown, 

1720;  Jane  Brown,  1720;  Thomas  Lyttleton  Savage, 
1855;  Lauretta  Ann  Winder,  1879;  Mary  Nicolson, 
1793 ;  Thomas  Ludwell,  Esq.,  1678 ;  Mary  E.  Dixon,  1836; 
EHzabeth  Page,  1702 ;  Col.  David  Bray,  1717 ;  Mrs.  Judith 
Bray,  1720 ;  David  Bray,  Armiger,  1731 ;  Elizabeth  Bray, 
1734;  James  Bray,  1690;  Joseph  Scrivener,  1772;  James 
Whaley,  1701;  Mathew  Whaley,  1705;  Capt.  Thomas 
Thorp,  1693;  Katherine  Thorp,  1695;  Edward  Dyer, 
1722;  Ann  Charlton,  17(44?);  Mrs.  Eliza  Williams,  1829; 
Hugh  Orr,  1764;  John  Yuille,  1746;  Seth  Sewell 
Briggs,  1812;  Susand  L.  W.  Briggs,  1811;  Mary  M. 
Dehart,  1839  ;  John  W.  Wyatt,  1849  ;  Margaret  F.  Clows, 
1853 ;  Ann  Snow,  1855 ;  John  L.  Tilford,  1862 ;  Mary  L. 
McCann,  1846;  Kev.  Scervant  Jones,  1854;  Mrs.  Ann 
Timson  Jones,  1849 ;  Millicent  Jones,  1751 ;  Mrs.  Anne 
Frank,  1759;  Robert  Major  Garrett,  1885,  and  Susan  C. 
Winder,  his  wife,  1854;  Henry  Winder  Garrett,  1879; 
Robert  Winder  Garrett,  1838;  Comfort  Anna  Garrett, 
1854;  S.  C.  Garrett,  1878;  Thomas  O.  Cogbill,  1858;  Mrs. 


Ccmb-etom  Xnecriptions  117 

Virginia  Abbott,  1830 ;  James  Cabaniss,  1837 ;  Robt.  Rae, 
1753;  His  Excellency  Edward  Nott,  1706;  Mrs.  Mary 
Purdie,  1772;  Mrs.  Sarah  Griffin,  1846;  Lady  Christina 
Stuart,  1807;  James  Nicolson,  1773;  Judge  Nathl. 
Beverly  Tucker,  1851  ;  Mrs.  Lucy  Ann  Tucker,  1867 ; 
Reuben  Smith,  1843;  Margaret  W.  Durfey,  1865;  Altazera 
E.  Durfey,  1835;  Thomas  G.  Durfey,  1847;  Mr.  Orlando 
Jones,  1681 ;  the  Confederate  dead  (see  Memorial  page.) 

The  tomb-stones  give  no  indication  as  to  the  number 
of  persons  buried  in  the  church-yard.  Many  of  the  old 
stones  have  been  broken,  and  the  fragments  scattered.  As 
far  as  possible  these  will  be  collected  and  placed  in  the 
tower  floor  lor  preservation.  Over  the  larger  portion  of 
the  church  yard  the  graves  are  unmarked  by  either  monu- 
ment or  mound.  In  the  spring  fresh  flowers  grow  over 
them,  and  in  the  winter  thej^  lie  covered  with  leaves  of 
autumn,  or  beneath  an  unsullied  mantle  of  snow. 


(romb*'0tone  Inscriptions — a^^en^a 

Richard  Southgate,  1828;  Mrs.  Mary  Amet  Gait, 
1854;  Emily  Morrison,  1887;  Richard  Kemp,  Esqr.,  and 
Sr.  Thomas  Lunsford,  Kt.;  these  two  names  are  inscribed 
on  the  tomb  of  Thomas  Ludwell,  (See  p.  104.) 

For  names  inscribed  on  Mural  Tablets,  See  Tablet  In- 
scriptions, pp.  88-92. 


Hppenbtt  C 

Xist  of  the  flDinisters  of  SSrutoii 
Iparisb 

Rowland  Jones,  1674-1688 Samuel  Eburne,  1688- 

1697 Cope  Doyley,  1697-1702 Solomon  Wheatley, 

1702-1710 James       Blair,       1710-1743 Thomas 

Dawson,    1743-1759 William     Yates,    1759-1764 

James  Horrocks,   1764-1771 ^John  Camm,   1771-1773 

^John  Bracken,  1773-1818 R.  Keith,  D.  D.,  1821-1824 

William  H.  Wilmer,  1826-1827 Adam  Empie,  1828- 

1836 Wilham  Hodges,  D.  D.,  1837-1848 Henry  M. 

Denison,  1848-1852 George   Wilmer,   D.  D.,   1856 

Thomas  M.  Ambler,  1860-1873 George  Wilmer,  D.  D. 

(2d  pastorate),  1872-1876 Jacquelin  Meredith,  1876- 

1877 Henry  Wall,  S.  T.  D.,   1877-1880 Alexander 

Overby,  1880-1885 F.  G.  Burch,  1885-1887 Lyman 

B.  Wharton,  D.  D.,  1888 T.  C.  Page,   1889-1893 

W.  T.  Roberts,  1894-1902 W.  A.  R.  Goodwin,  1903 


partial  IList  of  tbc  Destr?  of 
JSruton  Parish 

[The  dates  represent  their  first  appearance  in  the  records]. 

1674.— Hon.  Daniel  Parke,  Hon.  John  Page,  James 
Besouth,  Robert  Cobbs,  James  Bray,  Capt.  Philip  Chesley, 
William  Aylett.  1679— George  Poindexter,  George 
Martin.  1682— Major  Otho  Thorpe,  Capt.  Francis 
Page.  1684— Hon.  Philip  Ludvvell,  Hon.  Thomas  Beale. 
1686— Martin  Gardner.  1694— Hon.  Edmund  Jenings, 
John  Dormar,  William  Pinkethman,  Hugh  Norvell,  Henry 
Tyler,  John  Kendall,  Robert  Grawley,  Baldwin  Mathews. 
1697— John  Owens,  Philip  Ludwell,  Jr.,  Timothy 
Pinkethman.  1704— WilHam  Hansford,  Joseph  White, 
William  Timson.  1705— Frederick  Jones,  John  Page. 
1710— Richard  Kendall,  Ambrose  Cobbs,  Richard  Bland, 
David  Bray.  1721— Mathew  Pierce,  John  Holloway, 
John  Custis,  Michael  Archer,  Robert  Cobbs,  Jr.,  Henry 
Gary,  Dr.  Archibald  Blair.  1725— Lewis  Bur  well.  1727 
Sir  John  Randolph  1744— James  Wray,  Hon.  John  Blair, 
Sr.,  John  Harmer,  Benjamin  Waller.  1747— Hon.  Peyton 
Randolph.  1750— John  Holt.  1754— Robert  Carter 
Nicholas.  1761— Frederick  Bryan.  1769— Thomas 
Everard,  John  Pierce,  William  Eaton,  George  Wythe,  John 
Prentis,  William  Graves. 

The  following  names  are  taken  from  Meade's  Old 
Churches,  as  occurring  in  the  old  vestry  book  which  ended 
in  1769:  Hon.  Thomas  Ludwell,  Hon.  Thomas  Ballard, 
James  Vaulx,  William  Corker,  Thomas  Whaley,  Capt. 
Thomas  Williams,  Daniel  Wyld,  Thomas  Taylor, 
Christopher  Pearson,  Gideon  Macon,  Robert  Spring, 
Abraham  Vincler,  Samuel  Timson,  Thomas  Pettus,  Ccl. 
Thomas  Ballard,  Ralph  Graves,  Capt.  James  Archer, 
George  Norvell,  Edward  Jones,  Capt.  Thomas  Thorpe, 
Daniel  Park,  Jr.,  James  Whaley,  James  Bray,  James 
Hubard,  Nathaniel  Crawley,  John  Clayton,  David  Bray, 
Jr.,  Thomas  Jones,  Samuel  Turner,  Ge«rge  Nicholas, 
William  Robertson,  Thomas  Cobbs,  Ralph  Graves,  Edward 
Barradall,  Jr.,  ^aiiKS  Barber,  Darnel  Needier^  laitKS  Bray^ 


120  Tcstrymcn  of  Bnitoti  parish 

Jv^  edward  Barradall^  Jr.,  Henry  Tyler,  Jr.,  Mathe w  Pierce, 
William  Parks,  William  Prentis,  William  Timson,  Jr., 
Armistead  Burwell,  John  Palmer,  Pinkethman  Eaton, 
Nathaniel  Shields,  John  Power. 

I!)e0tn?men  from  1827*1853 

Henry  Edloe,  Jesse  Cole,  John  Page,  Dr.  Thomas  G. 

Peachy,  Dr. Griffin,  W.  W.  Webb,  James  Semple,  Sr., 

Robert  McCandlish,  Burwell  Bassett,  William  Waller, 
Leonard  Henley,  Ferdinand  S.  Campbell,  Jtidge  James 
Semple,  Thomas  Coleman,  Chas.  L.  Wingfield,  James 
Cabaniss,  J.  C.  Sheldon,  Richard  M.  Bucktrout,  Henley 
Taylor,  Robert  P.  Waller,  William  B.  Rodgers,  Roscow 
Cole,  William  Edloe,  Robert  Saunders,  Judge  B.  Tucker, 

John    Millington,    A.   G.   Southall,    Dickie   Gait,  R.  

Randolph,  John  B.  Christian,  John  Coke,  Thomas  E.  Evans, 

G.  Durfey,   Doctor  R.   M.   Garrett,    J.   M.  Maupin, 

William  W.  Vest,  Joseph  Walker,  William  Waller,  John  M. 
Gait,  J.  T.  Christian,  John  A.  Henley,  Joshua  Walker,  Jr. 

IDestripmen  from  1805^X903 

From  1853  to  1865  there  is  no  record. 

1865-1903.  Robert  Saunders,  P.  MontagueThompson, 
W.  W.  Vest,  R.  F.  Cole,  J.  O.  Mumford,  Dr.  Robert  Garrett, 
Mr.  E.  Taliaferro,  Richard  Hansford,  G.  Durfey,  William  S. 
Peachey,  John  A.  Henley,  Benjamin  S.  Ewell,  R.  T. 
Armistead,  H.  T.  Jones,  Jr.,  Robert  A.  Bright,  Dr.  D.  R. 
Brower,  John  L.  Mercer,  C.  W.  Coleman,  W.  L.  Wall,  W. 
H.  E.  Morecock,  Sydney  Smith,  Van  F.  Garrett,  John  L. 
Mercer,  H.  L.  Hundley,  C.  C.  Dixon,  J.  R.  Copeland,  B.  D. 
Peachy,  L.  W.  Lane,  Jr.,  Leonard  Henley,  Jr.,  Dr.  J.  D. 
Moncure,  Dr.  John  Clopton,  John  Spencer,  J.  B.  C.  Spencer, 
Dr.  E.  G.  Booth,  J.  L.  Hall,  H.  D.  Cole,  Dr.  H.  A.  Wise,  Dr. 
A.  V.  L  Deekens,  J.  T.  Christian,  J.  C.  Pilkinton,  Dr.  P.  T. 
Southall,  E.  W.  Warburton,  Dr.  L.  S.  Foster,  Dr.  W.  P. 
Hoy,  W.  C.  Johnson,  T.  G.  Peachy,  W.  H.  Macon. 


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HppenMi  2) 
Birtb  IRecorb 

The  birth  record  in  the  old  Parish  register  extends 
from  1739  to  1797.  The  cost  of  printing  the  details  of 
this  record  would  have  been  very  great.  We  have  there- 
fore copied,  and  now  print  tor  the  first  time,  this  record 
giving  simply  a  complete  list  of  the  names  contained 
therein,  with  the  dates  under  which  they  appear.  The 
Christian  name  is  given  first,  separated  by  a  comma  from 
the  names  of  the  parents.  Where  the  date  does  not  im- 
mediately precede  the  name,  the  date  last  given  is  the  one 
under  which  it  appears  in  the  record  book. 

The  names  of  slaves,  or  servants,  baptized,  with  the 
names  of  their  owners,  have  not  been  printed.  Thirty- 
three  consecutive  pages  in  the  register  are  filled  with  the 
record  of  the  baptism  of  slaves,  or  negro  servants,  as  they 
are  generally  called.  This  record  shows  that  from  1747 
to  1790  one  thousand  and  forty-nine  of  these  servants 
were  baptized  into  the  Church.  Besides  these  there  are 
many  entries  of  such  baptisms  on  the  pages  of  the  book 
not  specifically  set  apart  for  this  special  record.  One  of 
the  pages  photographed  from  this  old  Parish  register  con- 
tains the  record  of  some  of  these  baptisms.  An  examina- 
tion of  this  portion  of  the  register  shows  that  the  promi- 
nent men  of  that  day,  such  as  George  Washington,  Sir 
John  Randolph,  Peyton  Randolph,  Governor  Francis 
Fauquier,  and  others,  took  pains  to  see  that  their  servants 
were  brought  under  the  influence  and  care  of  the  Church. 

'1739— John,  George  and  Elizabeth  Holden Susanna, 

Dudley  and  MaryDiggs James,  James  and  Ann  Shields 

John,  John  and  Rebecca  Coulthard John,  Wm.  and 

Elizabeth  Highland John,  Joseph  and  Ann  Maples 

Ann,  Kenneth  and  Joannah  McKenzie Richard,  Thomas 

and  Jane  Wade William,  Mary  Haython Richard, 

"The  spelling  used  in  the  Old  Register  is  adhered  to,  though  often  in- 
correct and  inconsistent.     The  abbreviation  bap.  signifies  baptized. 


122  Btrth  Record 

John  and  Sarah  Coke Elizabeth,  Richard  and  Christian 

Giles Lucy,  Wm.  and  Ann  Keith Mary,  Robert  and 

Adling  Fry. 

1740 — Mathew,   Thomas   and    Ann    Holt Francis, 

Francis  and  Frances  Durphey Margaret  Mekinin  Wells. 

1741 — Easter,   John    and     Mary    Page Elizabeth, 

James  and  Eliz.  B3'rd Richard  Wells  and  1744,  George 

Wells,  George  and  Elizabeth  Wills Susanna    Peachy, 

George    Gilmer John,   John    and    Hannah    Taylor 

Sukey,  David  and  Eliz.  Force James,  John  and  Betty 

Foy 1741,  Mary,  Mark  and  Mary  Cosby. 

1742 — Elizabeth,    George    and    Ann    Jude Judith, 

Thomas    and    Eliz.    Dickinson Ann,   James    and    Ann 

Shields. 

1743— Jane,  James  and  Eliz.    Byrd ^John,  Thomas 

and    Ann    Holt 1742,     Judith,     Thomas     and     Eliz. 

Dickinson 1741,  John,  John  and  Mary  Carter 1743, 

Elizabeth,  John  and  Mary  Carter Catharine,  Wm.  and 

Eliz.  Wyatt 1733,  Francis,  Cliffen  and  Sarah  Rhodes 

1735,   Ann,   Cliffen    and   Sarah    Rhodes 1737,  Sarah, 

Cliffen  and   Sarah   Rhodes 1740,  Rebecca,  Cliffen  and 

Sarah  Rhodes 1743,  Cliffen,  Cliffen  and  Sarah  Rhodes 

Barbary,  Thomas  and  Sarah  Atkins 1743,  Robert, 

Andrew  and  Mary  Anderson. 

1744 — Lucretia,    Robert    and    AdHng    Fry Sarah, 

James  and  Tabytha  Barden Archibald,  Hon.  John  and 

Mary   Blair Anne,   Alexander  and   Susanna    Reed 

1745,  Elizabeth,  Dennis  and  Mar\'  Mourning William, 

Edward  and  Mary  Maynard 1744,  William,  Benjamin 

and  Eliz.  Hansel Elizabeth,  John  and  Mary  Green 

John,  George  and   Ann  Jude Sarah,   James   and   Ann 

Geady Elizabeth,    Daniel    and     Rachel    Mcintosh 

James,  John  and  Mary  Glass Archibald,  Hon.  John  and 

Mary  Blair Mildred,  Godfrey  and  Mary John,  David 

and  Joannah  Esco. 

1745 — ^Thomas,  Thomas  and  Eliz.  Dickinson Fyss, 

l^yss    and    Frances  Jackson William,  John   and  Eliz. 


Birth  Record  123 

Rawley John,  Joseph  and  Ann  Cock Ann,  James  and 

Eliz.  Davis Rebecka.  Wm.  and  EHz.  Wellings Hannah 

Harrison,  James  and  Mary  Wray Mary,  Richard  and 

Ann  Normand Robey,  John  and  Sarah  Coke Sarah, 

Thomas   and   Mary  Cobbs Bethiah,  James   and  Elie. 

Byrd Susanna.  John  and  Mary  Page Waller,  Thomas 

and  Eliz.  Jones. 

1746 — William,  Kenneth  and  Joannah  McKenzie 

Robert,  Robt.    and    Eliz.  Stevenson Elizabeth,   Thos. 

and    Eliz.    Holt Frances,    Geo.    and    Mary    Camp 

William,  Wm.  and  Mary  Nichols Susannah,  John  and 

Susannah  Lane Susannah,  Dudley  and  Mary  Diggs 

Christianna,  James  and  Ann  Shields Weary,  or  Mary, 

Geo.   and   Sarah    Russel David,    Abraham    and    Eliz. 

Roberts Tabytha,     Jas.     and     Tabytha     Barden 

Elizabeth,  David  and  Lucy  Musgroves Elizabeth,  James 

and  Eliz.  Davis 1746,  ^obn,  Revd.  Zhoo,  and  Gditba 

Robtnson — —John,  Thomas  and  Sarah  Atkins— Archibald, 

Hon.  John  and   Mary   Blair 1745,   Lewis.   Armistead 

and  Christian  Burwell 174-,  Judith,  John  and  Judith 

Brown 1746,  John,  .\rraistead  and  Christian  Burwell 

Ann,  Hon.  John  and   Mary  Blair Pamelia,   Thos. 

and  Ann  Holt David  and  Davis,  twins,  James  and  Eliz. 

Renolds William  Waters,  Wm.  and  Mary  Bradford 

Martha.  Man  and    Martha    Bryan Robert,  Benj.  and 

Eliz.     Hansel Mary,    Thos.    and     Eliz.     Dickinson 

Mathew,  Daniel  and  Eliz  Harmpeld,orHarmfield Mary 

Robinson,  John  and  Elizabeth  Rawlison William,  Thos. 

and  Anne  Wilkins 1747,  James,  James  and  Mary  Wray 

Jacob,  Severinus  and  MarA'  Durfey,  of  James  City  at 

that  time 1732,  Elizabeth,  Serv-erinus  and  Mar>' Durfey, 

1736,    Samuel,    ditto ^1738,     Francis,    ditto 1741, 

Serverinus,   ditto 1741,  John,  John  James  and  Mary 

Hulett 1744,  Elizabeth,  ditto 1745,   Martha,  ditto 

1749,  Mar>%  ditto. 

1747— Martha,     Benjamin    and    Martha    Waller 

Thomas,  Thos.  and  Rachel  Robinson 1748,  Mary,  Dr. 


124  Birth  Record 

Kennith  and  Joana  McKenzie 1747,  Anne,  James  and 

Eliz.  Oats. 

1748— John,     Dennis     and     Mary     Moring 1748, 

Elizabeth,    Fips    Jackson 1748,    bap.    James,    David 

Musgrove bap.  Frances,  James  and  Frances  Davis 

John,    Wm.  and    Anne    Davenport Elizabeth,  Planey 

Ward bap.    John,    George    and   Sarah   Russel bap. 

Mary,  Revd.  Cbomas   and  6ditba   Robinson Henry, 

Joseph  James 1748,  John  and  Elizabeth,  twins,  Daniel 

and  Frances   Hughs bap.   Dudley,  Dudley  and   Mary 

Digges Hannah,  Thos.  Atkins Anne,  John  and  

Back bap.      Johny       Peters,       Anthony      Jaspar 

Pinkethman.    Pinkethman  and   Mary   Eaton Edward 

Cross,   Edw.   and   Mary    Maynard Sarah,  John    and 

Anne  Bell. 

1749 — Elizabeth,  Peter  and  Morrow,  a   French 

Man Robert,  Benjamin  and  Martha  Waller William, 

Robt.  and  Mary  Nicolson Alexander,  George  Jones  and 

Margaret  Maeplin John,  James  and  Eliz   Wilson,  (late 

Eliz.  Alexander) Thomas,  Thos.  and  Anne  Wilkins. 

1750 — Benjamin,  Benjamin   and   Martha   Waller 

Elizabeth,  James  and  Elizabeth  Wilson Agnes  Rutton, 

Thos.   and  Eliz.   Dickinson Joseph,  P.   Nehemiah  and 

Caroline    Hunley John,    Jno.  and    Judith    Brown 

Rebecca,  Wm.   and   Rebecca  Rice Abigail,  James  and 

Anne  Oats Alexander,  Geo.  Jones  and  Margaret  McKlin. 

1751 — Nancy,  John  and  Anne  Wright Dixon  Brown, 

John  and  Mary  Peal John,  Robt.  and  Mary  Nicolson 

^John  Hubard,  Seth  and   Eliz.  Watkins Elizabeth, 

Edw.  and    Mary    Maynard Samuel,  Thos.  and  Anne 

Wilkins Daniel,  Daniel  and  Frances  Hughes Frances, 

Ashwell  and  Mary   Stone,  of  New   Kent  Co. Robert, 

Thos.  and  Lucy  Stevens. 

1752— Anne,     Wm.     and    Eliz.     Timson Barbara, 

Anthony  and    Elizabeth    Hay,    (late    Eliz.   Penman) 

William,  Wm.  and  Mary  Davenport Martha,  James  and 

Eliz.    Wilson Mollv,    William    and    Molly     Dunn 


Birth  Record  125 

Elizabeth,  Thos.  and  Mary  Withers Martha,  Benjamin 

and  Martha  Waller Manettrel,  Thos.  and  Bette  Jones 

Thomas,  Thomas  and  Hannah  Jones. 

1753— Sarah,   Richard  and  Mary  Singleton 1752, 

Joseph,  John  and  Eliz.  Curtis 1753,  William,  Wm.  and 

Lydia  Richeson Robert,  Edw.  and  Mary  Maynard 

Hannah,  Benj.  and  Anabella  Powell Jane,  Robt.  and 

Anne  Crawley Henry,  Wm.  and  Judy  Bray,  Armistead 

Elizabeth,  Thomas  and  Eliz.  Dickinson Jane,  John 

and  Catherine  Didip,  wife  of  late  Cathanne  Marshall 

William,    Nehemiah    and    Caroline    Hunley Ambrose, 

Ambrose  and  Sarah  Jackson Robert,  Robt.  and  Mary 

Nicolson. 

1754 — Elizabeth,   James   and    Mary  Gates Joseph 

Seagrove,  Nathaniel,  Sr.,  and  Sarah  Crawley Thomas, 

Anthony   and    Eliz.    Hayes Naomi,   Thos.   and   Mette 

Jones. 

1757 — William,  John  and   Hannah   Rhodes Anne, 

Wm.  and  Mary  Davenport Thomas  and  Samuel,  sons, 

John  and  Mary  Bartle. 

1758— Molly,    Peter    and   Eliz.   Powell Susannah, 

Wm.  and  Susannah  Green William  Bosawan,  Wm.  and 

Mary  Rose Thomas  Thorp,  Graham  and  Anne  Frank 

1757,    George,  Robt.    and    Mary    Nicolson 1758, 

Thomas,  Rebecca  Bird,  wd. 

1759— John,   James  Matt,   and   Anne  Ince James, 

James  and  Lucy  Atherton Thomas,  Thomas  and  Anne 

Craig Mary,  John  and   Mary  Bendall John   Bond, 

Daniel  and  Ann  Hoge 1761,  Repceme,  ditto 1764, 

Nancy,  ditto 1758,  John,  Wm.  and  Eliz.   Pearson 

1759,   Mary  Barden,  Simpin  and  Jane  Bryan Mary,^ 

George  and  Mary  Powell 1758,  Sally  Armistead,  John 

and  Judith  Brown Sarah,  John  and  Anne  Bell John, 

Frederick  and  Barbary  Bryan 1758,  Joseph,  Anthony 

and  Eliz.  Hay,  late  Elizabeth  Davenport 1759,  Adam, 

James  and  Anne  Craig,  late  Anne  Stephenson William, 

John  Nathan  and  Anne  Carter 1761,  Elizabeth,  James 


126  Birth  Record 

and  Anne  Taylor,  (Shoemaker) 1759,  Mary,  Wm.  and 

Mary  Davenport Hellen,  John,  Jr.  and  Jane  Blair 

1760,  Anne,  John    and    Rachael    Warrington ^James, 

John  Carter Lucy,  Abraham   and   Ann  Cole 1759, 

John,  John  and  Rachael  Warrington George,  John  and 

Mar\'  Chowning Thomas,  John  and  Jane  Carter,  late 

Jane     Mitchell Frederick,      Frederick    and     Barbara 

Bryan 1758,  David  Bringley,  Joseph  and  Eliz.  Wade- 

1761,  Thomas,  George  and Powell Robt.,  John  and 

Judith    Greenhow 1759,    Catharine,   Christopher  and 

Ann  Ayscough. 

1760— Frances,    ditto 1762,    Ann,    ditto 1763, 

Margaret,  ditto 1765,  Edward,  ditto 1767,  Clary, 

ditto 1762,  Elizabeth,  Wm.  and  Mary  Holt 1764, 

Daniel,     ditto 1762,     William     Stith,     William     and 

Elizabeth  Pasteur Sarah,  John  and  Elizabeth  Barnes 

1763,  John,  James   and   Francis   Southall ^Judith, 

Samuel  and  Judith  Coke 1763,  Ann  J(?)asker,  Robert 

and   Francis  Carter 1764,  Francis,   Hon.  Robert  and 

Frances    Carter Ann,   Henry  and  Martha  Bolton 

John.  James  and  Elizabeth  Bell,  1763 1762,  Angelyca, 

George   and    Margret  Lafong 1763,  John,  John  and 

Francis  Ormiston 1762,  Thomas,  Francis  and  Elizabeth 

Durfey 1764,  Francis,  Francis  and  Elizabeth  Durfey 

1764,  Ann,  James    and    Ann    Craig,    (Je^veler) 1766, 

James,  ditto. 

I'jQS— Nancy,   William   and    Mary   Stone Francis, 

Frederick  and   Barbary   Bryan Mary,  Alexander  and 

Barbara  Hoye Peter,  Peter  and  Elizabeth  Powell 

1765,  Frances,  William   and    Ann    Graves Elizabeth, 

Edward  and  Mary  Haynes Ann,    William    and  Ann 

Jackson Sarah,  Samuel  and   Judith    Coke Robert, 

John  and  Frances  Ormeston Dixson,  Robert  and  Ann 

Bond William,    William    and    Mary  Holt William, 

Mathew,     Jr.,    and     Katherine     Moody Elizabeth, 

Humphrey  and   Sarah  Harwood Samuel,  James  and 

Mary  Gait Betty  Landon,  Hon.  Robert  and  Frances 


Birth  Record  127 

Carter Elizabeth,   Benjamin    and  Sally   Eggleston 

Henry,  Richard  and  Dinnah  Street Chritianjohnjun., 

and  Jane  Blair ^Jennet,  Alixander  and  Mary  Purdy 

George,  Anthanv  and  Eliz.  Hay Sally,  Benjamin   and 

Martha  Waller 1766,  Mary,  Gabriel  and  Easter  Maupin 

1765,  Hunter,  Joseph  and  Roseama  Royle Arenna, 

Wm.  and  Ann  Saunders. 

1766— Jonny  Wyate,  Edward  and  Martha  Westmorc 

Elizabeth,  James  and  Eliz  Holdcraft Phillip,  James 

and  Frances  Southall Mary,  Samuel  and  Lucy  Trower 

Mary,  James  and  Eliz.  Geddy Mary,  William  and 

Mary    Pearson ^John,    John    and    Eliz.    Sheppard 

Elizabeth,  William   and   Eliz.   Phillips Mary    Symmer 

Degliesh.  Wm.  and  Susanna  Roberts. 

(Page  out  of  place  in   Record   Book)    1762 — Sarah, 

William    and    Mary    Davenport William,     Benj.     and 

Martha  Waller ^John,  Samuel  and  Judith  Coke Ann, 

Thomas    and     Ann    Blasingham George,    Peter    and 

Rebecca  Mires John.  Robert  and  Ann  Bond Fanny, 

William   and  Ann  Jackson Edward,  John  and    Anne 

Bell bap.  Susanna,  Benj.  and  Charity  Ricket 1763, 

bap.    Katherine.   Thomas   and    Katherine    Dunn bap. 

Elizabeth  and  Rebecca,  Mathew  and  Eliz.  Doran Mary, 

John  and  Rachel  Warrington James,  Wm.  and  Rebecca 

Carter ^John,  Walter  and  Eliz.  Lenox Ann,  John  and 

Jane    Carter 1758,    Joseph     Mathews,    George     and 

Katherine  Davenport 1760.  Anne,  ditto 1763,  John, 

Peter  and  Ann  Pelham ^James,  Wm.  and  Eliz.  Reynolds 

1764,  Robert  Hall,  Benj.  and  Martha  Waller 1763, 

Andrew,   Robert  and    Mary   Nicolson 1764,   Rebecca, 

John  and  Rachael  Warrington Elizabeth,  John  and  Jane 

Carter Elizabeth  Craton George  William,  Wm.  and 

Anna   Bradley Elizabeth,  John  and  Mary  Bendall 

Mary   Elizabeth,   Peter  and   Rebecca   Moyer William 

Allen,   Walther  and    Eliz.   Lenox Nev^rton,   John    and 

Mouning  Connilly James,  James  and  Frances  Southall 

176-    Patrick.  Robert  and  Mar^   Highland 176-. 


128  Birth  Record 

William,  ditto 1765,   Elizabeth    Meakings,  John  and 

Mary  White Nancy,  Wm.  and  Eliz.  Finnic Ann,Wm. 

and    Mary  Magdalene    Pearson Elizabeth,  Wm.   and 

Jenny  Dennis William,  Wm.  and   Rebecca  Carter 

William,  Simon  and  Rachel  Whittaker 1764,  William, 

Mungo   and  Sarah   Campbell 1765,  Sarah,  Eliz.  and 

Richard  Basset John,  James  and  Mary  Black Ann, 

James  and  Susana  Shields Edward,  John  and  Martha 

Hennese Joseph,  Wm.  and  Marj-  Davenport William, 

John    and    Eliz.    Barns James,    James    and    Frances 

Hubard Ann,  Richard  and  Sarah  Brown Archibald, 

Wra.  and  Mary  Rose Mary,  Chas.  and  Sarah  Porter 

Mary,  John  and  Eleanor  Seagrove  Camp William  Sealy 

Lano,    William    Sealy    and    Courtney    Lano Judith, 

Robert  Carter  and  Ann  Nicholas William,  William  and 

Eliz.  Bland. 

1766— Polly,    Wm.    and    Mary    Rose Elizabeth, 

George  and  Mary  Arnest John,  James  Eliz.  Bryan 

James,  Wm.  and  Rebecca  Carter Rebecca,  Robert  and 

Mary  Nicolson ^Jane,  Rich,  and  Sarah  Charlton Gary 

Mitchell,   John    and    Jane    Carter Mathew    Mallory, 

Mathew    and  Kathern    Moody George,    George    and 

Margret    Lafong Lewis,    Robert     Carter     and     Ann 

Nicholas George,  John  and  Eleanor  Seagrove  Camp 

John,  John  and  Mouning  Connilly Sarah,  Alixander 

and  Mary  Craig Robert   Timson,  Robert    and   Mary 

Highland William,    Rowland    and    Sarah    Crone 

Thomas,  Walter  and  Eliz.  Lenox Mathew,  James  and 

Frances  Hubard. 

1767 — William,   James    and    Hannah    Anderson 

Elizabeth,  James   and   Eliz.   Bell William,  Roliert  and 

Ann  Bond John  Grierson,  William  and  Clementine  Rind 

John  McCarty,  Wm.  Sealy  and   Courtney  Lane 

,  Alexander  and  Mary  Purdy Sarah,  Richard  and 

Dianna  Street Robert,  Tomkins  and  Martha  Martyr 

Richard,  Abraham  and  Ann  Cole A  son  of  James 

and    Frances    Southall Elizabeth,    George    and     Eliz. 


Birth  Record  129 

Wilson Ann,  John   and   Mary    Dewbre Mary,  Hon. 

Robert  and  Frances  Carter Fanny,  Benj.  and  Martha 

Waller Sally,    Richard    and    Sarah    Brown Mary, 

Jonathan    and    Mary    Prosser Francis,    Francis    and 

Eliz.    Durfey John,     Edmond     and    Ann     Sanders 

Elizabeth  Jackson,  John  and  Sarah  Timson John,  John 

and  Mary  White Lucretia,  Edward  and  Mary  Haynes 

Mary,     John     and      Rachael     Warrington James 

Reynolds,  Wm.  and  Mary  Davenport. 

1768 — Benjamin,  William  and  Martha  Taylor John, 

John  and  Eleener  Segrove  Camp Ann  Shields,  Frederick, 

Jun.    and  A.nn    Bryan Elizabeth,   William    and    Mary 

Godfrey William,  Humphrey  and  Sarah  Harwood 

1767— Elizabeth,  William  and  Mary  Magdlen  Pearson 

Anthony,   Anthony    and    Eliz.    Hay 1768,    Benjamin, 

William  and   Eliz.  Fear Alixander,  Alix.  and  Hannah 

Martin Robert,  Robert  Carter  and  Ann   Nicholas 

William   Dawson,  James  and    Ann    Clayton Charles, 

William    and    Clementine    Rind George,    George    and 

Cathern  Aubrey  Haynes James,  James  and  Eliz.  Cocke 

Samuel,  James  and  Eliz.  Holdcraft William,  Blovet 

and  Mary  Pasteur Harrison,  Mathew   and  Kathrine 

Moody Hariet  Lucy,  Hon.  Robert  and  Frances  Carter, 

Esq. Mary,  George  and  Mary  Arnest Rachel,  William 

and  Rachael  Phillips Robert,  John  and  Mary  Rattlif 

Jane  How,  William  and  Rebecca  Carter John  Tyler, 

James  and  Hannah  Anderson Mary,  John  and  Anne 

Eamshaw Charlott,  Robert  and  Ann  Bond Moses 

Russel,  William  Pearman Mary,  Steven  and  Martha 

May Sarah,  James  and  Betty  Valantine Randolph, 

Walther  and   Eliz.  Lenox Nathniel,  William  and  Ann 

Saunders Jane,  Richard  and  Sarah  Brown A  son  of 

John  and  Roseanna  Dixson Meriwether,  James  and 

Frances  Hubard Nelley,  John  and  Mouning  Connilly 

1770,  Humphrey,  Humphrey  and  Sarah  Harwood 

177  ,  Robert,  David  and  Mary  Morton Thomas,  ditto 

Mary,  ditto David,   ditto 1776,   Anne  Garland 


130  Birth  Record 

Carr,  William  and  MaryGoodson 1778,  William  Green- 
wood, ditto 1780,  Samuel  Spurr,  ditto 177   ,  William, 

William    and    Eliz.    Hunter 1777,    Mary  (?)   Hewes, 

Henry  Field 1779.  '^obti,  Rcvd.  "Ifohii  and  Sarah  Bracken 

FrancevS,  Hunphey  and  Sarah  Harwood 1780,  John 

Meed,  Wm.  and  Eliz.  Lark Christian,  Druits,  aDane 

Ann,  Charles  and  Eliz.  Lisle 1781,  Mary,  Holeman  and 

Sarah   Minnis John,  Beverly   and    Mary    Dickson 

Edward     Smith,     William     and      Ann     Jiggits John 

Rochanbeau,  Philip  and  Judith  Moody John,  John  and 

Sarah  Wright Matilda  Aylett,  Saml.  and  Anne  Beall 

Sarah,    Philip     and     Rebecca     Bullifant Richard, 

Richard    and   Booker Sallj',   Thomas  and   Sarah 

Bristow Fann3%   John  and    Anne  Carter Sylla  and 

Sally,    twins,    Joseph     and    Frances    Crawley Molly, 

Ambrose  and  Sarah  Jackson ^Jane,  William  and  Eliz. 

Russell Nanc3%  Andrew  and  Mary  Flax Julia  Carter, 

John  and  Sarah  Bracken Elizabeth  Garland,  William 

and  Eleanor  Pitt Elizabeth,  Hulitt  and  Jane  Rollison 

Sarah   Irebell,    John    M.   and    Judith    Gait 1782, 

John,    Saml.    and    Eliz.     Dubree John,     William    and 

Rebecca  Bacon 1783,eitzabethand  Robert,  Rev. Robert 

and  €liz.  Hndrews John  Craig,  J.  W.  and  Jane  Shileds 

James,  James  and  Mary  Gait Elizabeth,  Henry  and 

Eliz.  Nicolson Joseph,  Joseph  and  Margret  Prentis 

James,  John  and    Mary  Ratcliff Catherine,  John  and 

LucretiaBlasingham Betsey,  Charles  and  Searbourough 

Orrel William  Swiney,  William  L.  and  Ann  Bolton 

James,  Joseph  and  Jane  Wallace Elizabeth,  Daniel  and 

Martha  Dean Polly,  Chas.  and  Polly  Graves 1784, 

Mary,  Humphrey  and  Sarah  Harwood Mary  Cosby, 

James   and    Eliz.  Johnson Thomas,  John   and  Mary 

Jones Thomas,  Thomas  and  Esther  Scot Elizabeth 

Randolph,  Robert  and  Lucy  Sand  ford Ann  McKenzie, 

William  and  Eliz.  Lark. 

1785— Gideon,  John  and  Mary  Ratcliff Betsy,  Saml . 

and   Sarah    Wright Judith    Bray    Inglis,    James    and 


Btrth  Record  131 


Susanna  Shield Charlott,  Saml.  and  Frances  Able- 


William    Chesley,    John    and     Eliz.    Roadman Mary 

Wilkinson,  Thomas  and  Eliz.Cowles William,  Wm.  and 

Eliz.   Dick—   -Christianna,  John   and    Marg.    Stokes 

William  Farrow,  Wm.  and  Eliz.  Russell William,  Joseph 

and   Margaret    Prentis Warren  Ware,   Eliz.  Lyon 

William  Beverly,  Thomas  and  Sarah  Bristow Martha, 

Wm.  and  Eebecca  Baker Ann  Brown,  James  and  Eliz. 

Innis Jane  Wright,  Duncan  and  Margaret  McPherson 

Elizabeth,  John  S.   Alix.   and    Eliz.  Besserer John 

Minson,  James  and  Mary  Gait Jane,  David  and Mor- 
ton  Lucy  Ann,  John  M.  and  Judith  Gait Humphrey 

Chase,  John  and  Catherine  Wright Penelope  Johnston, 

Walker    and    Mar}^    Maury Mary,    John    and    Mary 

Reynolds Eliza  Trebell,  William   and   Eliz.   Finnic 

Samuel,  Samuel  and   Eliz.  Dubree William  Taliaferro, 

William  and  Mary  Nelson Thomas,  William  and  Mary 

Gibbs Sarah,   John  and    Sarah   Bracken Elizabeth, 

George  and  Ann  Jackson 1786,  James  Solomon,  James 

Solomon  Cumbo  and  wife Esther,  Son,  John  and  Susan 

Cole 1787,    Elizabeth    Cumbo,   Solomon   Cumbo  and 

Wife 1790,  Sarah  Cumbo,  ditto 1787,  Richard,  John 

and  Mar3'  Radcliff Susanna,  John  and  Susanna  Cole 

Richard,    James    and    Mary    Gait 1789,    Gabriel, 

<litto 1792,  George,  John  and  Mary  Bray. 


Hppenbii  £ 
Death  IRecotb,  1662*1751 

The  following  is  a  complete  list  of  the  names  of  those 
who  are  recorded  as  having  died  from  1662  to  1751,  the 
names  of  slaves  being  omitted  : 

'  1662— Bridgett,  w.  John  Russell Fielding,  s.  Capt. 

Daniel    Parke Frances,    w.     Alexander    Walker 

Vi(?)sley,  w.  Asael  Batten. 

1663 — Mary,  d.  Garret  Hawthorne Robert,  s.  Mrs. 

Mary    Walters Elizabeth,    w.    William    Gilbey Mr. 

Tuley Anne,  w.  Major  Crenshaw Robert  Boyden 

Anne,  d.  Wm.  and  Jane  Davis Mary,  d.    Mr.   Edwd. 

Folio tt John,   s.  John  Davis Daniel,  s.  Mr.  Daniel 

Wylde Daniel,  s.  Capt.  Daniel  Parke Henry  Phrodno 

Eobert  Thomas,  s,  John  and  Katherine  Thomas 

Rachel,  d,  John  and  Mary  Davis. 

1664 — Margaret,  d.  Henry  White Rebecca,  d.  Mr. 

Edward  Foliot John,  s.  John  and  Katherine  Wells- 


Mr    Henry   Banister Richard    and    Robt.,    s.    Valent 

Harvy Margaret,  w.  Major  Crenshaw John  Davis 

Elizabeth,    d.    John    Johnson Thomas    Phihp 

Nicholas  Dunford Katherine,  w.  John  Wells Thomas 

Austin,  s.  Mrs.  Mary  Bromfield William  Stone. 

1665— John    Evans Captain    Jeremiah    Fisher 

Elizabeth,    d.     Daniel    Wylde Thomas    Bromfield 

Thomas  White John  Thomas Adam,  s.    Elizabeth 

Strawhawne Frances,  d.  Garret  and  Mary  Hawthorne. 

1666— James,  s.  James  Wilkins Robert  Kempe 

Jane  Berkley Ann  Luckey Thomas  Wilson Asaell 

Batten Elizabeth  Vaulx William  Jeph Henry 

Dennis Elizabeth  Davis Martha  Graves Frances, 

d.  Henry  Binkfield Thomas  Predy John  Martin 

James  Todeink  (?) 

1667 — Major  Joseph  Creshaw Adam  Strawhun  (?) 

Henry,  s.  Henry  White William  Jackson Ralph 

'Abbreviations:     S.,  son  of.     D.,  daughter  of.     W.,  Wife  of. 


Death  Record  133 

Graves Edward  Gwyn John  Morgan John  King 

Villerel  (?)  Hughs Richard  Todd ^John  Russell 

William  Walthome  (?) Robert  Partridge Katherine, 

d.  Robert  Partridge Susan,  w.  Robert  Hossington. 

1668 — Thomas,   s.   Thomas    Penbethman Thomas 

Wilkinson George     Woods Hugh     Cooper Peter 

Sharpe — -Mary,  d.  Mr.  Graves Sara,  w.  John  Davis 

Benjamin,  s.  in  law  Thomas  Holder Mar\',  w.  Thomas 

Holder John,  s.  John  Stephens William,  s.  Daniel  and 

Margaret  Stephens Elizabeth,  w.  James  Trice,  Samuel 

Crabtree Ann,    d.    Rachell    Graves Katherine,    w. 

Michaell  Batos. 

1669— Margaret,  d.  Capt.  and  Eliz.  Crenshaw Capt. 

Crenshaw Rachell,  w.  Richard  Barnes ^John  Comon 

Martin    Ireland Charles    Hurst Rebecca,    w. 

Francis  Durphey John,  s.  John  and   Mary  Daniell 

Susanna,  d.  Daniel  Somorton Ann,  d.  Henry  and  Mary 

White Thomas   Gregory Richard    Whitehair 

James  Wells Daniell,  s.  Richard  and  Sarah  Kempe. 

1670— John   Smith,  William  Phillips Elizabeth,  d. 

John  and  Eliz.  Equo Charles  Wheeler Ann,  d.  Anthony 

and  Margaret  Sands  John  Woods  John  Peters 

Jarret    Hawthorne Frances,    d.    Capt.    Francis 

Mathews. 

1671 — Thomas,  s.  in  law  Thomas  Milton Elizabeth, 

\^^    Thomas    Whaley William    Hazell Hannah,   w. 

Cook Marth,  w.  Jas.  Bullock Thomas,  s.  John  and 

Jane  Cole Anthony,  s.  Anthony  and  Margaret  Sands 

Richard,  s.  Ricd.  and  Eliz.  Shurley Elizabeth,  d.  Capt. 

Frances  Mathew^s Sarah,  d.  Wm.  and  Eliz.  Tucker 

Lettie,  d.  Rite  and  Eliz.  Jones Edward,  s.  Edwd.  and 

Bridget  Ivory William  Lancaster ^Joan,  w.  Thomas 

Penkethman Paul  Johnson  Clark Henry  White 

Robert  Horsington Jrauna,  d.  Frances  Gutteridge 

Anne   Lee,  w.   Henry  Bingfield Dorothy,   d.  Anthony 

Sands John  Horsington. 

1672 — William,  s.   Cornelius  Jonathan Robert,   s. 


134  Death  Record 

Clement  Mash Martha,   w.   Robert    Robinson Mr. 

Clement  Marsh Mr.  Thomas  Penckethman. 

1673— Susanna,   w.    Francis  Durfey Margaret,  w. 

Anthony  Sands Mary,  d.  Capt.  Francis  Mathews 

William  Haskett. 

1674— William     Bell Robert    Wharton Mary 

Simpkins James  Bisit Valentine  Harvey John,  a. 

James  Bisit Sebella  Aylett Capt.  Philip  Chesley 

Thomas  Simpkins Henry  Townsend Richard  Turner 

Richard   Barnes Henry    Taylor Thomas,    s.  James 

Vaulx Julian     Davis,     widow Edward     Bray^ 

Francis  Mathews. 

1675— James  Field Dorothy,  w.  Capt.  Otho  Thorp 

John   Wattles Mary,   w.   John    Wattles George 

Jude,  Sexton Elizabeth,    w.   Robert  Bee Hunphrey 

Veale Robert,  s.  Capt.   Anthony   Archer Margaret 

Wylde Elizabeth,    w.    Capt.    Thorp Elizabeth,    w. 

Samuel    Richardson Anne   Jackson Capt.     William 

Corker Mr.  Lewis  Griffin ^John  Dickinson William 

Gilbey. 

1676— John    Rogers,    Sr. ^John    Frederick Gyles 

Rogers William  Thomas Thomas  Sturgis George 

Bates ^John  Scot Thomas  Rentmore. 

1677  —  James    Vaulx WilHam    Tantey John 

Russell Elizabeth  Hutchins Capt.  Thomas  Williams 

Thomas  Sampson. 

1678  —  Thomas    Wilkinson  Anna,     w.    Thomas 

Ballard,  Esq. William  Aylett ^John  Wisdem  (?) 

Adam  Hudson 6ltzabetK  w.  Rowland  ^oties,  Clafh 

Thomas  Wilkinson Warrick  Haile The  Honourable 

Thomas  Ludwell Adam    Hudson The  Hon.  Daniel 

Parke Mary,  w.  Christopher  Peirson Nicholas  Toop. 

l(579_Mary,  w.   Nicholas   Toop Anne,  w.  Martin 

Gardner Edward  Bessy. 

1680— John,  s.  Richard  Saint Robert  Simpson 

Alice,    w.     John    Dormar ^James     Cooper Mathew 

Edwards. 


Death  Record  135 

1681— James  Besouth Samuel,  s.  Samuel  Timson 

John    Bell William    Fellows Anne,   w.    Richard 

Haley. 

1682 — Mr.  Gwinn Joseph    Crenshaw Mrs. 

Lydia  A^^lett,  widow Joan,  w.  Thomas  Mille William 

Gravenor Edward,  s.  Nicholas  Sebrill Robert  Cobbe 

Robert  Spring. 

1683 — Robert  Prichard- Elizabeth,  d.  Capt.  James 

Archur Ambrose  Cobbe Margaret  Porter Morris 

Herd James,  s.  John  Taylor ^James  Wilkinson. 

1684 — Abraham,    s.    John    Vadin John,    s.    John 

Vadin Anne  Winchcom Robert  Handy Thomas, 

s.  Nicholas  Sebrill Henry,  s.  Henry  Tyler Mrs.  Robt. 

Oobbs Humphrey,    s.    Robert    Lounsdale ,    s. 

Edw^ard  Jones,  Merchant Thomas  Owen. 

1685 — Anne,    w.   Charles  Digby Richard   Aynsley, 

Arthur  Juxton Margaret,  w.  Andrew  Cole Susanna, 

w  Job  Corking William  Oxley. 

1686 — George    Hewbank ^Jane,    w.   Edward  Jones 

Katherine,    w.    Henry    Brower Joseph    Bascom 

Margaret    Bell Rebecca    White Thomas   Broad 

Dorcas,    w.    William    Atwood Thomas    Summers 

George  Norvell Edward    Davis Anne,    w.    Edward 

Davis Evan    Owen Christopher    Walter William 

Martin Elizabeth,  w.  Thomas  Jeflfreys Sarah  Hale 

Margaret   Owen Constant,   w.    William   Davis 

Edward  Wadsworth Edward  Evans Anne,  d.  John 

Teddar John   Garland George    Bridges Leonard 

Dickeson James    Brand Thomas   Rogers Vinty, 

w.  George  Robison John,  s.  John  Bates. 

1687— Mr.     Valentine    Evans John     Stevens 

Richard    Peirse Robert     Miller George    Burkey,     a 

Dutchman Sarah  Gilbert Sarah,  w.  Edward  Gyles 

Joan, W.John  Meeke John  Whiting Richard  Crooke 

Joan,    w.    Wm.    Jackson Margaret,    w.    William 

Kerle Mary,  w.  Thomas  Taj^lor Joan,  d.   William 

Jackson Elizabeth,  d.  Thomas  Fear Thomas  Limb 


136  Death  Record 

William  Irish William  Preston Esther  Gold 

William  Davis,  Sen. — Robert  Partridge — John  Philips 

William  Johnson. 

1688— Mf.  Rowland  ^oiice,  Clarhe George  Hewbank, 

s.  Geo.  Hewbank Mary,  d.  Geo.  Hewbank Abott,  s. 

Wm.  Atwood Mr.  John    Daniel Isaac    Goding 

William  Rice John  Evans. 

1689— William  Watson Mary,  w.  Robert  West 

John  Harrison Thomas  Gorham Thomas  Ballard, 

Esq. George  Glascock Samuel  Bainton. 

1690 — Henry,  s.  Joseph  White Benett  Casement, 

widow Alice,  Edw.  Giles John,  s.  Mr.  George  Martin 

Edward  Jones,  Merchant James  Drake William 

Robison Mary,    w.    Capt.    Francis     Page John 

Horsoon  or  Horvoor  (?) Jane,  w.  Robert  Stanyard. 

1691 — Mary  Whiting Anne,    w.   Wm.    Coman 

Edmund    Ivory Elizabeth,    d     Thos.    Mills John 

Cooper James  Bray,  Esq. John  Williams,  a  School 

M. Anne,    d.     Edmund    Jenings,    Esq., Susanna 

Ludbrook ^John  Page,  Esq. Robert  Huellin. 

1692— Joan  Hammer Capt.  Francis  Page Mary 

Mills Jane    Hortshorn Nicholas    Sebrill,    Sen. 

Geverge,    s.    Capt.    Geo.    Ravenscroft Capt.    Thomas 

Thorp Thomas  Steward William  Iserell Thomas 

Bray John    Taylor John    Hopkins John    Clarke 

Mr.    Nichols Anne,    w.  James  Harrison Henry 

Binkfield Thomas    Tibbs Mr.    Robert    Jones 

Thomas    Yates Richard    Page Mrs.    Katherine 

Besouth Elizabeth,    d.     Richard    Page John,    s. 

Christopher    Peirson Thomas    Batts Mr.    Robert 

Higgison Evan   Roberts Joice,   w.   John    Bates 

Elizabeth,  d.  John  Bates William  Green Mr.  Edmund 

Cobbs John  Keen Mary  Sutor. 

1693 — Mary  Keen,  widow Thomas,  s.  Christopher 

Peirson Mr.    Martin    Gardner Sarah,    w.    Daniel 

Hornby Roan Graves Corville ,  wife  of 

L.  PhiHp  Wells. 


Death  Record  137 

1695 — Vinity,    w.    Tho.    Crips John     Spelman 

Watson,  widow Robert  Clarke Jervas  Newton. 

1696— Ml*.    Rudaon,    a  mintstci* Evelyn,    d.    Dan. 

Parke,  Esq. White,  d,  Joseph  White John  Batten 

George  Jude James,  s.  Wm.  Kerle John  Brookman 

John    Turner Thomas    Mills Mary,    w.    Timo. 

Pinketham Rice  Jones. 

1694— Daniel    Mecarte Mr.    Philip  Wells ^James 

Knell  Cordwainer Elenor  Anderson ^James  Gibson 

Elizabeth  Crocus William  Graves ^John  Pollard 

Alice  Whitby John  Teddar John  Manly Mr. 

Samuel  Timson Henry  Goodwin Mr.  Peter  Temple 

of  Hampton  Parish. 

1695 — Alexander    Bonyman,    Jr. Mrs.    Katherine 

Thorp Elizabeth,  d.  Mr.  Henry  Tyler. 

1701— JMary,  w.  Rev.  Mr.  Cope  Doyley,  Clarhe Mr. 

James  Whaley,  late  Church-warden Mr.  Wickham 

Joan,     w.    Thomas    Tandy Thomas    Thorpe )Mr. 

HUardts^Tntmster Francis  Durfy Mrs.  Lydia  Vinkler, 

widow Mr.  John  Kendall Mr,  Martin,  merchant 

Mr.  Dowson Susanna,  w.  Wm.  White Matthew,  s. 

Nicho.  Sebrill Mr.  John  Owens. 

1699 — Elenor,  w.  Alexander  Bonyman,  Clerc.  of  this 

parish  Robert    Brooks John    Stafford John 

Bonyman Peter  Johnson Magdalen,  w.  Jos.  White 

Edward   Davis Edmund  Pines Susanna   Evans 

Thomas  Teer Robert  Haley. 

1700-1— William  Jackson ^John  Bates 6(tzabetb^ 

d.  Cope  Doyley. 

1701-2— Thomas    Clayton WiUiam    Sanders 

Susanna,  w.  Hon.  Brewer Mr,  Adrian  Preston,  writing- 
master -Mrs.    Mary    Pinkethhman Mary    Clayton, 

widow Mr.  Harvy,  a  merchant Elizabeth  Shelbum 

Vht  Reverend  Mf.  Cope  Voyky Mrs.  Mary  Timson, 

widow Elenor,  d.  Mary  Bonyman AnnPynes,  widow 

Elizabeth,   w.    Mr,   John  Page ,   wife  of  Mr. 

Lawrence  Green Mary  Teer,  widow. 


138  Death  lUcord 

1702-3— Thomas  Cobbs Elizabeth,  w.  Mr.  Henrj 

Tyler Emanuel  Desveer,  a  Portuguese Mary  Dyer. 

1703— Francis,  w.  John  Steward William  White,  a 

Planter Alberter    Warren Margaret    Bentley 

James,  s.  Wm.   Harrison Mr.   George  Martin John 

Web Francis,  d.  Brathwait  Massey Henry  Brower 

Nicholas  Mitchell ,  wile  of  Goodwin. 

1703-4— Thomas    Ward William    Stevens,    Sr. 

John  Casej^ Job  Corking Nicholas  Hammer Lidia, 

w.  Henry  Dyer ^Joseph  Man John  Bartlett Mary. 

w.  Ralph  Hubard Thos.  Farmer,  Jas.  City  Parish 

Mary,  w.  Joseph  White ^John  Syncock Edward,  s. 

Wm.  Davis John   Wetherford Mr.  John   Archer 

Robert  West Mr.  Timothy  Pinbethman. 

1705— Frederick,  s.  Mr.  Fred  Jones Sara,  w.  Capt. 

Hugh  Howell William  Cobbs Mathew,  s.  Mr. James 

and  Mary  Whaley Denis,  s.  Flor.  and  Mary  Mechart 

William   Hopkins Elizabeth,  w.  Edward  Wigg 

Sidney    Row 1706,  Mary,    w.    John    Boss Robert 

Filpott 1706,  eoaiHRO  NOCC,  eSQ^GOT^etc 

Elizabeth  Filpott,  widow John  McCloud John  Hall. 

1707 — Marv,  second  w.  Alexander  Bonyman,  clerk 

Thomas  Pinchback Richard  Strickland Wells,  a  very 

ancient     woman Anne    Day Mr.    Isaac    Jemart, 

Mercht. Mrs.  Minitrey,  w.  David  Minitree William 

Gibbs,  a  very  ancient  man. 

1708 — Rebecca    Pinkethman,    widow ^James   Lord 

Nicholas    Sebrill Francis,    w.    Nicholas    Sebrill 

Lucy,    w.  Jonathan  Drewitt Jane,    w.   Daniel   Parke, 

Esq. Sara,  w.  John  Nicolson Cornelius  Shehome 

Catherine  Masterson Mrs.  Lord,  widow,  James  Lord. 

1709— Mr.    William    Hansford Mr.     John    Juce, 

Keeper  of  prison Mr.  Thomas  Wiggs. 

1710— Godwin,  w.  William  Thomas Denis  Shehom 

Mary,  d.  Mr.   Mengo   Ingles Elizabeth,  d,  Robert 

Cobbs Sarah,    w.    Henry    Tyler Hunphrey    Hames 

and    wife Mrs.    Saml.     Timson Thomas    Love 


Oeatb  Record  139 

Joseph   Bengerfield Reinold    Jackson,   h   very   ancient 

man Mr.   Edward  Powers Mary,  w.  John  Drewitt 

John  Leaver Thomas  Stanley Jonathan  Ratcliff 

Joan,    d.    Widow     Johnson Thomas     Hix "Ok 

Reverend    Mr.   Solomon   mhzUXcy,   Mtnieter Rebecca, 

w    Hen.  Dyer Mrs.  Smith Henry   Dyer Anne,  d. 

Mungo  Ingles Mrs.  Mouring,  w.  Capt.  James  Bray 

Mrs.  Francis  Sharp. 

1710-11  —  Anne,     w.     Mungo     Ingles Mary,     w. 

Abraham  Martin .Toseph  White William  Pulley 

Abraham  Martin Henry  Gilbert Edward  Whittock 

Mary,  w.  John   Hall Joseph,  s.   Francis  Cook 

1712,  Mathew  Lyndrick Benjamin,  s.  Julius  Cook 

Sarah,  d.  Abraham  Martin Elizabeth,  w.  Wm.  Alintof 

Daughter  of  Fredk.  Jones Jane,  d.  Thomas  Allen 

Thomas  Allen David  Minitree Bentley. 

1712— Mr.  Coleman Mr.  William  Pinkethman,  High 

Sherr. Mrs.  Anne,  d.  Mr.  Henry  Tyler Mr.  Richard 

Wharton,  Barister  att  Law John  Green Anne,  w.  Mr. 

Thomas  Read Lydia,  d.  Robert  Cobbe John,  Jr.,  s. 

Jno.  Layton. 

1713 Martin    Denis Frances,  w.  William   Jones 

Dorothy,  w.  Stephen  Tomson Elizabeth,  d.  Stephen 

Tomson,  Esq. Cobbs,  d.  Robert  Cobbs. 

1714 — William  Taylor Anne,  d.  William  and  Mary 

Syms John     Timberleck Issabella    Broadbanck 

John.  s.  John  and  Eliz.  Tyler William,  s.  Wm.  and  Mary 

Sherman Elizabeth,  w.  Claud  Rovear Catherine,  w. 

Harr^'   Dyer Daughter  of  Eliz.   Anderson David, 

s.  John  and  Rachel  Morris William  Lucas Francis, 

w.   John   Custis David,  s    Mungo  Ingles Elener,  d. 

Thomas  Wade. 

1715 — Mary,  d.  Alexander  and  Mary  Gary Son  of 

John  and  Mary  Hubbard Christopher,  s.  Christopher 

and  Man,'  Jackson Sarah  Dunston Charles  Barrett 

John,  s.   David   Stover  (?) Thomas,   s.   David  and 

Eliz.  Prior Mary,  d.  William  Davis. 


140  Death  Record 

1716 — Mary,  d.  John  and  June  Goodwin Son  of  John 

and  Mary  Harris,  (died  unbaptized) Sarah  Dunston 

Johanna,   d.    Christ,   and  Mary   Jackson Dorcas,   w. 

Samuel    Timson 1717,    Richard    Davis George 

Glasscock 1718,  William,  s.  James  and  Sarah  Lewis 

John,  S.John  and  Eliz.  Bolton John,  s.  Robert  West 

Florence   McCarty Edward    Dyer 1719,    Danl.,    s. 

Danl.  and  Frances  Burton Hugh  Nor  well. 

1719 — Alexander    Boniman Florence,    s.    Florence 

McCarty Daniel  Blouette Mary,  w.  Jno.  Harris- — 

Mary  Davis,  widow Rich.  Huldston Ambrose  Cobbs 

Abigail    Obrian Matt    Cole Mary     Baker David 

Cunningham Sarah,  w.  James  Lewis MarN'  Taylor 

Eliza,  w.  Francis  Duffin. 

1720— John    Smith Eliza,   d.    Georgee    Riddal 

Child  of  Henry  Gary Bridgett    Menetree,  widow 

Barbary,  d.  Robert  Laughton William  Cocke,  Esq. 

Mrs.    Judith    Bray  Joseph,    s.    Joseph    and    Eliza 

Davenport Peter    Morgan Mr.    Thos.    Bray 

William,  s.  Sarah  Taylor Anne  Moor John  Gooding 

Richard    Williams Alexander    McGrigor John 

Steward Margett  Bridson Peter  Owraan William 

Johnson. 

1723— John   Buffin Taylor,   s.    Richard    Tobin 

William,    s.    Frances    Sharpe Phileman    Jackson 

Richard,  s.  Rich,  and  Mary  Alcorn John,  s.  Samuel  and 

Eliz.  Weld  on Thomas  Tarrent Hannah,  d.  William 

and  Eliz.  Rudder Daniel  Dean George  Gilbert Ann 

Vaulx Lydia,    w.   Wm.   Dyer Mary,  d.   Henry  and 

Anne  Cary. 

1724 — Daphne    Lightfoot Adam    George Ben- 
jamin   Sadler Alexander    Kennedy John    West 

Jane,  w.  George  Straghan Joseph  Davenport. 

1725— Robert  Fennock Mr.  Christian  Munroe 

Thomas  Paget Charles  Windsor Lidia  Dyer John 

Pegram Rachel    Bakercet Capt.     James     Bray 

Joanna  Delony Mr.  Robert  Cobb James  Cosby 


Death  Record  141 

Margaret,    w.    Wm     Alwood William,    s.    John    and 

Frances  Ince John  Gill )Mr,  '^obn  Bag,  Minister 

1726,    Stephen    Besouth Thomas    Wager Thomas 

Harris Jane  Newman Sarah,  w.  George  Straugham 

1727,  Mary  Pasteur James  Backhurst Thomas 

Barber Jane    Ogleby John    Davis,    Sen. Jno. 

Pasteur,    Sen.    s.     Jno.     Pasteur James    Shields 

Bdmund    'Jennings,    Geq. Eliza    Pack Mrs.    Mary 

Luke  William     Harrison Elizabeth,     w.    Joseph 

Davenport William    Johnsoune William,    s.    Wm. 

Bulger Sanders,  w.  Robert  Sanders. 

1726 — Eliza  Wilkinson Ann,  w.  John  Davenport 

Ann   Everitt Wm.    Allexander Andrew,   s.   Andrew 

Laprade Ann,  \\.  Andrew  Laprade Peter  Serjeanten 

' Michale     Archer Mary     Lark Mary    Green 

Elizabeth    Archer William    Forbar Jno.,   son   John 

Pasteur Eliza  Willis Mary  Kains Hannah  Bryan 

Jean  Pollard Eliza  Wilkinson Daniel  Taylor 

Daniel  Murpha ^John   Davis,  Jr. Samuel  Millington 

Frances    Millington Wm.    Humphreys William 

Barber Benjamin    Stone William,    s.    John    and 

Hannah  Whitehead Mary  Nicholas John  Harris. 

1728 — William  Dyer Mrs.  Sarah  Jennings,  widow 

of  Col.  Edward  Jennings,  Pres. John  Davis Anne,  d. 

John  and    Eliza    Tyler Martha,    d.    Robert    Dyer 

Edward,  Child  Edward  Burrish Margaret  Thompson 

Frances    Young Elizabeth,    d.    Wm.    and   Francis 

Aleraft. 

1729— Mr.     Giles    Moodey Bettey    Jacquelin,    d. 

Richard  Pack William,  s.   Capt.   James    Hopkins 

Amy,  w.  Charles  Cosby Elizabeth,  d.  Henry  Bryan 

William    Thompson Daniel    LeMerchant Elizabeth, 

d.  Susane    Cooper Sara,    w.    Isaac    Bee Itilla,    d. 

James  and  MaryHubard Lewis  Contesse Margaret, 

w.  John  White Patrick  Green John  Brook George 

Wynn Mr.  Henry  Tyler,  Sen. Ann,  widow  John  Davis 

William  Stone Sarah,  d.  John  Pa 


142  Death  Record 


1734 — Garret    Henrikiss John,  s.    John    Lang- 

Rachael  Wood John    Cook Thomas  Rogerman- 


EHzabeth  Newton Thomas  Couser William  Harper. 

1735 — Jane,  w.  Dennis  Barden Catherine  Moreland 

Mrs.  EHzabeth,  w.  John  Timson Helena,  w.  William 

Maples Robert  Johnson Daniel  Cain William, 

s.    William   Trewly Anthony    Hammond Sarah,   d. 

Jno.   Blair ^James,  s.   John   Mundell Ann,  d.   Henry 

Tyler. 

1736— Elizabeth    Johnson,     widow Mr.    William 

Blaikley Mary,    d.    Mrs.    Charles    Bridges,    Sr. 

Elizabeth,  w.   Saml.   Pennele Hugh   Edmunds ^John 

Douglass Mr.  Henry  Skipwith ^yq,  8fiaif^  w.  Rev. 

lohn  Skatf,  Rector  of  Stratton  (?) 

1737— William    Hunt Jeky    C.   Jones Anne,  d. 

Anne  Jorgles Mary,  w.  William  Taylor Daughter  of 

Gabriel  Maupin Catherine  Oconnor John  Clayton, 

Esq. Sarah  Bryum Elizabeth,  w.  James  Shields 

Rebecca,  d.  Thomas  and  Eliza  Penman William  Burum 

Mary,  d.  James  Spence Ron.  CdtUtam  ©oocb,  Gaq. 

Major  Abraham  Nicholas Mr.  Alexander  Kerr 

Rachael  Rhodewell Sary,  d.  Sarah  Roadwell Dennis 

Folio Eliza,   d.   Wm.   and    Eliza    Wyatt Judith,  d. 

Gabriel  Maupin John,  s  in  law  Philip  Hankins John 

Macgrigor Patrick  Fergusson. 

1748— Elizabeth,  d.  John  Holt,  Merchant Mary,  d. 

Doctor  Kenneth  McKensie Thomas  Prat Elizabeth 

Fleming John,  s.  John  Holt,  Merchant Mrs.  Crease, 

X.  Thos.  Crease Thos  ,  s.  George  Camp Elizabeth, 

w.  James  Levie Richard  Stannup William  Ninimoor 

Nimmo,  Esq. Hannah,  d.  James  Wray,   d.  Jas.  Wray, 

Esq. Anne  Stevens Elizabeth,  d.  Philip  Jackson 

Charles  Lewis Elizabeth,  d.  William  Timson James 

Reynolds William  Buck Hon.  John  Groymes Mrs. 

Sarah,     w.     Mr      Henrj^     Tyler  Mr.     John     Stott, 

Watchmaker William  Parris Sarah  Pegram John 

Leppers James  Colvil Ralph  Graves Mrs.  John 


Death  Record 


143 


Rawley Sarah  Lynne Mrs.  Wm. 

Charlton  Taylor Mr.  Davidson 

John  Custis,  Esq. 

1751 — Abraham,  s.  Abrm.  Nicholas  and  Anne 
Mf  ♦  Hbrabam  Ntcbolas,  Sen,,  Clerk  of  the  Church. 


Timson George 

Mrs.  Davidson 


-1761, 


Ibietotlcal  Hbbenba 


UBSEQUENT  to  printing  the  preceding  part 
of  this  book,  the  following  historical  notes 
have  come  to  light,  and  are  inserted  here  for 
preservation,  and  because  of  their  historic 
interest. 

In  an  article  on  the  "Church  at  Jamestown" 
in  the  Church  Review  of  April,  1855,  we  have 
found  four  verbal  extracts  from  the  Bruton 
Parish  Vestry  Book  of  1674  which  are  not 
included  in  the  extracts  from  this  old  Vestry 
Book  hitherto  given.  Two  of  these  are  in  con- 
nection with  a  dispute  as  to 

tTbe  Bounbar^  ILine  Between  3ame0  Citi? 
IParisb  an^  Bruton  parish. 

Under  date  the  8th  of  May,  1691,  there  was  the  fol- 
lowing record  : 

"•Cdbcrcae  we  arc  informed  that  some  persons  of  ^HM66 
CICCT  PHRISF)  have  a  design  to  deprive  CRIS  parish 
of  their  undoubted  ripfbt^  endeavoring  by  the  present  General 
Hssembly  to  augment  CRGIR  parish^  by  lessening  OURS, 
it  is  therefore  the  order  and  request  of  this  present  Testry, 
that  Ml*.  Samuel  Gbumc  [Minister,]  Cap^t.  fi'ancis  Page, 
Mt*.  Gdmund  '3fening8,  Mi*.  Martin  Gardner,  Mr.  SamU 
8tmsont  and  Mf  ♦  ^ohn  Ownes^doe  appear  before  ye  Governor 
and  CoundU  and  Burgesses  of  this  present  Generall  Hssem- 
bly,  to  mahe  out  bow  this  parish  hath  been  established  by 
as  good  authority  as  Tirginia  can  give,— XThat  our  parish  re- 
main entire  as  settled  by  former  Hssemblys,  ffor  we  cannot 
thinh  that  this  assembly  will  take  away  any  man's  property 
without  his  consent,  and  to  do  that  from  a  Corporation  or 
parish,  which  may  not  be  done  to  a  single  person,  is  a  greater 
injury:— Hnd  therefore  we  have  good  reason  to  think  that  the 
General  Hssembly  will  rather  rattify  our  just  right  and 
property  which  we  have  quietly  enjoyed  time  out  of  mind, 
than  any  ways  infringe  the  same'' 


14.6  rWatomal  Hddenda 

IParisb  iproccsstone^ 

At  this  same  meeting  of  the  Vestrv-  of  the  8th  of  May, 
1691,  it  was  also  determined  that, 

^Cdbcrcas  tt  is  thought  convenient  by  this  Tcstry  for 
prcwnting  OCRGR  PHRISReS  mahing  encroachments 
upon  the  bounds  of  ours,  that  the  bounds  of  our  parish  be 
surrounded  by  ye  inhabitants,  and  processioned.  It  is  there- 
fore ordered  that  the  Testry  do  meet  ye  first  Thursday  in 
December  next,  to  consult  of  such  method  as  may  be  thought 
most  convenient  ffor  effecting  ye  same;  and  that  in  ye  mean- 
time ye  present  Church  hardens  make  what  inquiry  they  can 
of  ye  bounds  of  that  part  of  the  parish  which  bounds  on 
'James  Cittie  parish/' 

Si3e  of  Doors  in  dburcb  at  James  (rit\>  an^ 
©ruton 

In  the  record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Vestry  of 
Bruton  Parish,  held  on  June  5th,  1679,  among  other  items 
relating  to  building  the  new  Church  at  Middle  Plantation 
(Williamsburg),  it  is  required  that, 

**\c  dest  door  and  Chancell  door  be  according  to  the 
dimensions  of  panics  City  Church  door,  only  to  be  one  foot 
higher  and  ¥2  a  foot  wider  than  they  are.^ 

flDr.  jfrancis  Durfc\)  (S)r^er^^  to  Ibis  Ibomc 
IParisb 

In  1725  it  is  recorded  in  the  Vestry  Book  of  Bruton 
Parish  that, — 

^dhereas  francis  Durfey  hath  this  day  (December  17th,) 
made  application  for  relief  from  this  Testry,  but  it  appear- 
ing that  he  is  a  lawful  resident  of  "Ifamcs  City  parish, 
Ordered,  that  he  forthwith  remove  out  of  this  parish.'* 


Biatoncal  Hddcnda  147 

Ube  IRemoval  anb  IRestoration  of 

the  Jamestown  Communion 

Silver 

At  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  held  in 
Lynchburg  in  May,  1854,  the  Revd.  John  Grammar  pre- 
sented the  Jamestown  Communion  Silver  to  the  Conven- 
tion with  the  following  statement : 

"I  beg  leave  to  state  to  this  Convention,  that  I  have 
set  upon  the  table  three  pieces  of  communion  plate  which 
originally  belonged  to  the  Church  of  Jamestown,  the 
first  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  that  was  planted  on 
the  American  continent.  This  plate  was  under  the  care  of 
the  Vestry  of  Bruton  Parish,  Williamsburg,  when  the 
Jamestown  Church  fell  into  disuse,  and  became  extinct. 
In  the  summer  of  1827,  when  I  was  about  to  be  ordained 
a  Presbyter,  the  Vestr}^  of  that  Parish  learning  through 
the  Revd.  Dr.  Wilmer,  who  was  then  Rector,  that  the 
Parishes  in  which  I  was  ministering,  and  endeavoring  to 
revive  and  re-organize,  were  destitute  of  communion 
plate,  very  kindly  and  most  unexpectedly  sent  me  these 
three  pieces,  accompanied  by  a  resolution  requiring  me  to 
preserve  the  same,  and  to  return  to  said  Vestry  an  ac- 
knowledgment of  its  receipt,  and  an  obligation  binding 
myself  in  the  contingency  of  the  future  resuscitation  of  the 
Church  in  the  old  Jamestown  Island,  and  the  Canonical 
Organization  of  a  Parish  therein  in  connection  with  the 
Protestant  Episcopal  Church  in  the  Diocese  of  Virginia,  to 
restore  the  said  plate  to  such  Church.  Such  acknowledg- 
ment and  obligation  I  accordingly  forthwith  forwarded 
to  the  said  Vestry,  and  from  that  time  have  kept  the  said 
plate  under  my  own  custody,  having  vised  it  only  on  the 
first  occasion  of  my  administration  of  the  Sacrament  of 
the  Lord's  Supper,  when  finding  the  size  of  the  Chalice 
rendered  its  use  inconvenient,  and  being  otherwise  provided 


148  Riatorical  Hddenda 

with  more  convenient  plate,  this  has  since  remained  in 
disnse.  These  three  pieces  comprise  a  large  Silver  Chalice, 
inscribed  on  the  side, 

**  Mtxc  not  T>o{y  Cbingcs  with  profane  "T 
and  under  the  foot  the  words 

"6x  dono  f^ancisct  Morrison  Hrniigm,  H.  D.  i66j.^ 
A  Silver  Patten  with  the  same  words  inscribed  on  its 
bottom  and  underneath  its  foot,  and  a  Silver  Alms  basin 
or  plate,  having  inscribed  on  its  rim  the  words, 

'^f  or  the  use  of  lames  City  parish  Church.'' 

Having  occasion  somefew  years  since  to  make  inquiry, 
I  learned  from  the  Rev,  H.  M.  Dennison,  then  Rector  of 
Bruton  Parish,  that  mj^  obligation  to  the  Vestry  above 
mentioned  could  not  be  found,  and  that  no  record  of  the 
proceedings  of  the  Vestrj^  of  Bruton  Parish  for  1827,  and 
several  succeeding  A^ears,  had  been  preserved;^  and  the 
knowledge  of  this  fact  suggesting  to  me  the  impropriety 
of  having  property  over  which  the  Convention  only  can  be 
regarded  as  having  any  rightful  ownership,  in  irresponsi- 
ble and  consequent!}'  insecure  hands,  1  have  brought  the 
said  plate  with  me  to  this  place,  and  now  present  it  to  the 
Convention  with  the  suggestion  and  request  that  it  be 

committed   to ,  to  be  deposited  b}'  them  in  the 

Library  of  the  Theological  Seminary  of  Virginia,  there  to 
be  carefully  preserved  as  a  valuable  historical  memorial 
of  our  fathers,  by  whose  joious  zeal  the  Church  of  our  affec- 
tions was  first  planted  in  our  land." 

On  motion  it  was 

"Resolved,  That  the  Communion  plate  surrendered  to 
this  Convention  by  the  Rev.  John  Grammar, be  now  com- 
mitted to  the  charge  of  the  Rev.  Drs.  Sparrow  and  Packard, 
to  be  by  them  carried  to  the  Theological  Seminary,  and 
deposited  in  the  Librar}^  thereof,  to  be  there  carefully  pre- 
served. "- 

'  The  Vestry  Book  opens  with  record  of  meeting  held  May,  1827. 
-  Virginia  Convention  Journal,  1854,  pp.  35,  36. 


fifetoncal  Hddcnda  149 

IReturnet)  to  Bruton  |Part5b 

In  the  minutes  of  the  Convention  of  the  Diocese  of 
Virginia,  held  in  1858  ,we  find  the  following  record : 

"Mr.  Barton  presented  a  memorial  from  the  Vestry  of 
Bruton  Parish,  praying  the  restoration  to  their  possession 
and  care  of  certain  plate  which  once  belonged  to  the 
Church  at  Jamestown,  but  which  by  an  order  of  the  Con- 
vention of  1854,  was  deposited  for  safe  keeping  in  the 
Library  of  the  Theological  Seminary,  near  Alexandria. 
The  said  memorial,  on  motion,  was  referred  to  a  commit- 
tee, consisting  of  Mr.  D.  W.  Barton  (Winchester),  Rev. 
William  N.  Pendleton,  and  Mr.  David  H.  Conrad 
(Norborne  Parish,  Berkley  Co.)' 

On  page  41  of  this  Journal  of  1858  we  find  the  fol- 
lowing; 

"The  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  memorial  of 
Bniton  Parish,  with  regard  to  the  plate  formerly  belong- 
ing to  the  Church  at  Jamestown,  now  in  the  Library  of 
the  Theological  Seminar3',  presented  their  report,  and  on 
motion  it  was  recommitted  to  the  Committee,  to  lie  over 
initil  the  next  meeting  of  the  Convention." 

This  Committee  reported  to  the  Convention  of  1859, 
which  was  attended  b}'  Rev.  G.  T.  Wilmer  and  Dr.  Robert 
M.  Garrett  fiom  Bruton  Parish.  The  record  is  in  the  fol- 
lowing words : 

"The  Committee  of  the  last  Convention  on  the  memo- 
rial of  Bruton  Parish,  praying  that  the  plate  formerly  be- 
longing to  the  Church  at  Jamestown,  and  now  in  the 
Librar}-  of  the  Virginia  Theological  Seminary,  may  be  re- 
stored to  the  vestry  of  the  said  (Bruton)  Parish,  reported 
that  they  had  no  further  information  to  communicate, 
and  renewed  the  recommendation  that  the  prayer  of  the 
memorialists  be  granted." 

"The  report  was  adopted."^ 


1  Virginia  Convention  Journal,  1858,  p.  37. 

2  Virginia  Convention  Journal,  1859,  p.  42. 


150  I^tstoncal  Hddenda 

These  Convention  records  have  been  copied  to  give 
answer  to  the  question,  which  is  often  asked,  as  to  the 
right  and  authority  by  which  Bruton  Church  holds  this 
silver,  which  this  Parish  Church,  as  the  successor  of  the 
Church  at  Jamestown,  inherited  in  1699,  or  after  the  James- 
town Church  was  burned  in  1676,  during  Bacon's  rebellion . 

Inscription  on  the  Custis'  tlombs 

On  the  outside  of  Bruton  Church,  in  the  comer  where 
the  north  wall  intersects  the  north  wing  at  the  west,  next 
to  the  tomb  of  Col.  Daniel  Parke,  are  two  tombs  removed, 
with  the  remains  of  the  persons  they  commemorate,  from 
New  Kent  Co.,  Virginia.    They  are  inscribed,— 

fkrc  Ucs  the  body  of 

Mf  9.  fVanccs  Custte 

daughter  of  Damct  Park  Gsq.^ 

who  departed  this  life 

March  the  i4tb,  17H  in  the  29th 

year  of  f)er  Hge. 


F>er€  lies  the  body  of 

Daniel  park  Cuetie 

son  of  CoU  Daniel  Park  Cuetis 

of  New  Kent  County 

who  Departed  this  Life 

on  the  i9tb  of  february^  1754 

Hged  two  years  and  three  months. 

Cinder  this  stone  lies  interred 

the  body  of  frances  Park 

Custis  daughter  of  Daniel 

park  Custis^  Gsqr.,  and  Martha* 

his  wife  bom  Hpril  i2tb  1753, 

DyedHpril  1st  1757 

4  years. 


•Snbsequcntly  Mrs.  Martha  Washington. 


IMstorkal  Hddcmla  151 

Scattered  Zomb^etonce 

Scattered  through  James  City,  and  the  counties  adja- 
cent, are  a  large  number  of  old  tomb-stones,  many  of  which 
mark  the  graves  of  persons  whose  names  are  well  known 
in  the  history  of  Virginia.  Many  of  these  grave  yards  are 
being  sold  to  immigrants  as  parts  of  purchased  farms. 
In  some  instances,  at  least,  the  tomb-stones  will  be  re- 
garded as  being  in  the  way.  The  stones  will  be  removed 
and  used  in  building,  the  ground  will  be  left  unmarked, 
and  pass  into  cultivation.  The  Drummond  tomb-stone 
at  Green  Spring,  the  former  residence  of  Sir  William 
Berkley,  three  miles  from  Jamestown,  was  for  years  used 
as  a  floor  in  a  spring  house,  and  then  placed  in  a  cart  to 
be  carried  to  the  house  for  a  door  step,  and,  on  being 
dumped  from  the  cart,  was  broken  in  two,  and  now  lies 
out  in  the  yard.  These  stones  could  be  preserved,  and  the 
dust  of  the  departed  dead  would  be  protected  from  desecra- 
tion if  the  tomb-stones  and  the  remains  of  the  dead  could 
be  removed  from  these  neglected  and  abandoned  farms 
and  placed  for  preservation  and  protection  in  the  yard  of 
Bruton  Parish  Church,  or  in  the  Church  itself.  This  was 
done  in  the  case  of  the  Custis  tombs,  from  which  the  m- 
scriptions  given  above  were  taken.  Since  this  idea  has 
been  suggested  others  have  taken  steps  looking  to  the  re- 
moval of  the  tombs  of  their  ancestors  from  neglected 
farms  to  these  hallowed  grounds. 

A  diagram  will  be  prepared  and  preserved,  showing  the 
exact  location  of  the  tombs  now  in  the  Church  and 
Church  yard,  and  of  others  placed  there.  This,  with  the 
record  of  inscriptions  given  in  this  book,  will  insure  the 
permanent  location  of  these  tombs  even  after  the  effacing; 
touch  of  time  shall  have  made  the  inscriptions  in  the 
mar])le  illegible.  The  location  and  the  inscriptions  of  the 
tombs  will  thus  be  preserved  as  a  part  of  the  historical 
record  of  this  historic  Church  and  place. 


f  ntrobuctorie  flote 
IRelatino  to  the  Baptism  of  Slaves 


In  the  old  Parish  Register  of  1662  we  find  thirtj^-three 
consecutive  pages  devoted  entirely  to  the  record  of  the 
baptism  of  slaves,  or  colored  servants.  This  record  ex- 
tends from  1746  to  1797.  The  record  of  the  baptisms  has, 
however,  been  preserved  for  onty  twenty-five  years  during 
this  period.  A  number  of  pages  were  torn  from  the  book 
and  used,  it  is  said,  for  wrapping  preserv^e  jars.  The 
book  was  found  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  McCandlish,  and 
given  into  the  custody  of  the  late  Dr.  Coleman.  There 
appears  no  record  for  the  following  j'ears,  inclusive — i.  e., 
from  1755  to  1758,  from  1769  to  1781,  from  1784  to 
1787,  and  from  1792  to  1796,  making  twenty-six  3^ears 
of  which  there  are  no  records  under  the  heading  of  the 
Baptism  of  Slaves. 

The  following  summary  shows  the  number  of  slaves 
baptized  each  year  of  which  there  is  record,  and  the  total 
number  baptized  for  each  person  whose  name  is  given 
during  the  3'ears  designated,  inclusive. 

While  we  have  no  desire  to  defend  slavery  as  an  insti- 
tution, and  with  no  intention  of  doing  so.  we  point 
with  a  feeling  of  commendable  gratification  to  the  fact 
that  our  representative  southern  people  were  earnestly 
solicitous  as  to  the  spiritual  care  of  these  colored  people. 
To  this  fact  this  record  is  a  witness.  A.nd  as  an  abiding 
witness  to  this  truth  it  has  been  compiled  and  inserted. 
The  number  of  colored  people  baptized  in  Bruton  Parish 
in  the  year  1750  was  larger  by  one  than  the  total  number 
of  infant  and  adult  baptisms  of  colored  people  by  our 
Church  in  the  whole  Diocese  of  Southern  Virginia  as  re- 
ported to  the  Council  in  1903. 

A  successful  work  was  conducted  among  the  colored 
people  by  the  Revd.  Wm.  Hodges, D.  D.,  1837-1848.  There 


Introductory  jSotc  Relating  to  Baptiem  of  Slaves  153 

are  no  records  extant  showing  the  results  of  this  under- 
taking. A  mission  for  colored  people  has  recently  been 
organized  in  the  Parish,  and  is  now  being  conducted  under 
the  direction  of  the  rector. 

W.  A.  R.  G. 
Bruton  Parish  House, 

February  1,  1904. 


Xtbe  mumber  of  Slaves  Baptiseb  in 

Bruton  Iparisb  J£acb  l^ear  for 

^went^^five  locate 


1746 S 

1747 40 

1748 29 

1749 54 

1750 116 

1751 73 

1752 33   !   1783 

1753 28 

1754 69 

1759 2 

1760 2 

1761 25 

1762 66 

1763 36 


1764 65 

1765 75 

1766 94 

1767 78 

1768 87 

1782 32 

69 

1788 1 

1790 1 

1791 1 

1797 1 

Free  Slaves  baptized  from  1746 

to  1797 37 


Total  number  baptized, 1132 


Elpbabetical  %i6i  of 
lP>ev8ons  who  bab  Slaves  Baptiseb 

wttb  the  tiuitibcr  baptized  for  each  person  naincdt 

during  the  years,  inclusive,  designated— 

See  Introductory  Note,  page  152 


No.  Slaves 
Name  oi"  Owner  Baptized 

Ambler,  Richard,  1751,  1 

Amy,  Mrs.,  1761,  1 

Anderson,  Andrew,  1750,  1 

Anderson,  Robert,  1782-'83,  2 

Anson,  Doctor,  1750-'04,  2 

Arraistead,  Booth,  1752,  2 

Armistead,  Elyson,  1750-02,  2 

Armistead,  Robert,  1762,  1 

Attorney,  the,  1747,  1 

Ayescough,  Christopher,  1768,  1 

Baker,  Jonathan,  1765-'67,  2 

Barber,  the  Widow,  1749-'50,  4 

Bardett,  1754.  1 

Barradall,  Mrs.,  1754,  5 

Baskerfield,  1750,  2 
Basset,  Mrs.  and  widow, 

1749-'68,  4 

Bates,  James.  1748,  1 

BeaU,  Saml.,  1782-'83,  3 

Bellini,  Chas.,  1783,  1 

Bcsser,Jno.  S,,  1743,  1 

Blaikley,  Mrs.,  1748,  1 

Blaikley,  Katharine,  1765-'67,  1 
Blair,  Hon.  Col.  Jno.,  Esq., 

1747-'82.  24 

Bocock,  Mrs.,  1754,  1 

Bowcock,  Edw.,  1750-'51,  2 

Booker,  Richard,  1783,  2 

Bray,  Coll.  Thos.,  1747-51 ,  14 

Bray,  Maj.,  1750-'54,  6 

Bray,  widow,  1750,  6 

Brown,  John,  1753-'66,  3 

Brown,  Wra.,  1752-'64.  2 

Bruton  Parish,  1 

Bryan,  Benj.,  1749-'51,  4 


No.  Slare* 
Name  of  Owner  Baptized 

Bryan,  Fredk.,  1762-'68,  16 

Bryan,  Estate  Fredk.,  1782,  2 

Bryan,  John,  1747-'83,  4 

Br^an,  Mary,  1762,  I 

Bryan,  Widow,  1751.  1 

Bryan,  William,  1754.  1 

Buford,  Mr.,1754,  2 

Bullifant,  Phillip,  1767-'82,  2 

Burdett,  Mrs.  Kitty,  1748,  1 

Burfoot,  Lawson,  1752-65.  4 

Burwell,  Arraistead,  1747,  1 

Burwell,  Bacon,  Est.,  1749,  1 

Burwell,  Col.  Carter,  1749-'54,  23 
Burwell,  Col.  Carter,  Est.. 

1762-'68,  18 

Burwell,  James,  1766,  1 

Burwell,  Col.  Lewis,  1747-'68,  70 

Burwell,  Widow,  1761,  1 

Camp,  Geo.,  1752,  1 

Camp,  Jno.  1763-'68.  5 

Camp,  Mary,  1763.  1 

Camp,  Mrs.'.  1754,  I 

Campbell,  Mary,  1765,  2 

Campbell,  Jno.,  1761,  1 
Campbell,  Katharine,  1762-'67,    5 

Campbell,  Widow,  1753,  1 

Carter,  Jas.,  1765,  1 

Carter,  John,  1759-1788,  3 
Carter,    Coll.    Landon, 

1747-1767,  14 
Carter,  Coll.  Landon,  Est. , 

1761,  1 

Carter,  Hon.  Robt.,1761-'68,  12 

Carter,  William,  1768,  1 

Carter,  Mrs.,  1754,  1 


Hlp!>ab«tical  List  of  persons  who  bad  Slaves  Baptized    155 


No.  Slaves 
Name  ot  Owner  Baptized 

Chapman,  John,  1768,  1 

Charlton,  Edwd.,  1752-'68,  4 

Charlton,  Mrs.,  1751,  1 

Chiswell,  Coll.Jno.,1732-'66,  5 

Chiswell.  Mrs.,  2 

Chowning,  Josiah,  1666'-67,  2 

Coales,  Thos.,  1783,  I 

Cobbs,  Mrs.  Mary,  1751-'67,  5 

Cobbs,  Thomas,  1750-'67,  2 

Cocke,  James,  1764-'68  3 

Coke,  James,  1762,  1 

Coke,  John,  1748-'82,  2 

Coke,  SamI,  1762,  1 

Coke,  Thomas,  1750,  1 

College,  See  Wm.  and  Mary, 

Cosby,  Mark,  1747-'49,  2 

Cotton,  Mrs.  Lucy,  174.9-'64,  2 

Coulthard,  Wm.,  1754,  1 

Craige,  James,  1764,  1 

Craige,  Alex.,  1765-'68,  6 

Crawley,  John,  1783,  3 

Crawley,  Natthaniel,  1750-'67,  12 

Crawley,  Robert,  1753,  1 

Crawley,  Robert,  Est.,  1768,  2 

Crawley,  Samuel,  17S2.  2 

Crawley,  Widow,  1752,  1 

Crease,  Mrs.  1754,  2 

Custis,  Coll.  Daniel,  1750-'64,  6 

Custis,  Coll.  John,  1747-'65,  7 

Custis,  Col.             1747-'66,  16 

Custis,  Col,  Estate,  1765-'68,  9 

Dale,  Lidder,  1750,  1 

Davenport,  George,  1750-'66,  5 

Davenport,  Joseph,  1750-'51,  2 

Davenport,  Martha,  1764-67,  2 

Dawson,  Revd.  Commissary, 

1747-'50,  3 

Dawson,  Elizabeth,  1762-'68,  3 

Dawson,  Priscilla,  1762-'67,  4 

Dawson,  Widow,  1752-'65,  2 

Day,  Benj.,  1783,  1 

Dickenson,  Thos.,  1750,  1 

Dickenson,  John,  1766,  1 


No.  SUtcs 
Name  of  Owner  Baptized 

Dickinson,  Arthur,  1765,  1 

Digges,  Dudley,  1783,  I 

Dixon,  Doctor,  1748-'51,  4 

Dixon,  John,  1768-'83,  2 

Dixon,  Widow,  1747,  1 

Druitz,  J.  C,  1783,  1 

Drumond,     Mrs.     Amey, 

1766-'68,  3 
Drumond,  Mrs.  Amey,  Est., 

1783,  1 

Eaton,  Mary,  1762-64,  5 

Eaton,  Penkethman,  1751,  3 

Eaton,  William,  1766-'83,  3 

English,  Mary-,  1764,  I 

Everard,  Thomas,  1749-'68,  15 
Fauquier,  Hon.  Francis,  Gov., 

1762-'67,  4 

Fergusson,  CoHns,  1762-'65,  2 

Fergusson,  John,  1762-'68,  5 

Finnic,  Alex.,  1749,  '67,  4 

Finnic,  Leander,  1764,  1 

Finnic,  William,  1764-'82,  4 

Free  Slaves,  1746-'97,  37 

Gait,  James,  1766-'83,  7 

Garland,  John,  1767,  1 

Garland,  Widow,  1767,  2 

Geddy,  1766,  1 

Gilbert,  Peter,  1751-'83,  2 
Gilmer  (or  more,)  Dr.  Geo., 

1749-'65,  11 

Glass,  1762,  1 
Gooch,    Hon.    Wni..    Gov., 

1750-'54,  5 

Goodson,  Mr.,  Estate,  1783,  1 

Gough,  Mrs.,  1749,  1 

Graves,  Chas.,  1783,  1 

Graves,  Ralph,  1747,  1 

Graves,  William,  1762-'68,  7 

Green.  Mr.,  1783,  1 

Greenhow,  John,  1762-'64,  2 

Griffin,  Dr.  Cyrus,  1783,  1 

Grymes,  Mary,  1764-'66,  4 

Gun,  Mr.,  1783,  1 


156    HIpbabctieal  List  of  peraone  who  had  Slaves  Baptized 


No.  Slaves 
Name  of  Owner  Baptized 

Hansford,  Edward,  1763,  2 

Hansford,  Thomas,  1763,  1 

Hansford,  Mrs.,  1750,  1 

Harmer,  Mrs.,  1750,  1 
Harwood,  Humphrey,  1768-'82,  2 

Hay,  Anthony,  1759-'68,  5 

Hay,  Dr.  Peter,  1766,  2 

Holloway,  Mrs.,  1747-'54>  2 

Holt,  John,  1748-'50,  2 

Holt,  Thomas,  1762,  1 

Holt,  William,  1764-'67,  8 

Homsby,  Thomas,  1748.'68.  8 

Hornsby,  William,  1783,  1 
Horrocks.Rev'd James,  1767-'68,  2 

Hubard,  Morton,  1782,  1 

Hubard,  William,  1748-'68,  3 

Hubard,  Mrs.,  1748-'83,  4 

Hubbard,  Mrs.,  1754,  3 

Hughs,  Emery.  1763-'82,  2 

Hughes,  Jas.,  1782-'83,  2 

Hulett,  Hannah,  1768-'83,  2 

Jackson,  Geo.,  1783,  5 

Jackson,  Phips.,  175l-'52,  2 

Jackson,  Sarah,  1761,  2 

Jameson,  David,  1767,  1 
Johnson,  Coll.  Phillip,  1751-'68,  29 

Jones,  Coll.  Thos.,  1747-'54,  3 

Keele,  Mrs.,  1754,  1 

Keith,  Mrs.,  1750,  1 

Kemp,  Rebecca,  1783,  1 

Kendall,  Jno.,  1747,  1 

Kene,  Mrs,  1750,  2 

Kennedy,  William,  1754,  2 

Larke,  Robt.,  1761,  1 

Lane,  John,  1752,  1 

Lawson,  Saml.,  1765,  1 

Lewis,  John,  1782,  1 

Long,  David,  1751,  1 

Lyne,  Betty,  1751,  1 

Major,  Saml.,  1782- '83,  2 

Maupin,  Gabriel,  1764-'83,  3 

Maupin,  Mrs.,  1750-'54,  2 

May,  Peter,  1763,  1 


No.  Slaves 
Name  of  Owner  Baptized 

Maynard,  Edward,  1751-'53,  2 

McCarty,  Elizabeth,  1747,  1 

McCarty,  James,  1767,  2 

McCarty,  John,  1747,  2 

McCarty,  Michael,  1762.  1 

McClurg,  Dr.,  1783,  1 
McKenzie,    Dr.     Kenneth, 

1749-'54,  7 

Metcalf,  Matthew,  1751,  1 

Moody,  Matthew,  1748-'64,  4 

Moody,  Martha,  1766,  1 

Moody,  Phillip,  1768,  1 

Moody,  William,  1764-'83,  4 

Morton,  David,  1782,  1 

Moss,  William,  1762-'68,  3 

Moyer,  Peter,  1765,  '82,  2 

Mundell,  Mr.,  1754.  1 

Nelson,  General,  1783,  3 
Nicholas,     Robert     Carter, 

1753-'64,  8 

Nicholson,  Edw.,  Est.,  1768.  1 

Nicholson,  Rob't,  1766-'97,  8 

Nicholson,  William,  1782,  1 

Newitt,  Richard,  1762,  1 

Newitt,  William,  1762,  1 

Orr,  Mr.,  1782.  1 

Page,  John,  1752,  1 

Page,  Mary,  1762-'67,  2 

Palmer,  John,  1749,  1 

Paradice,  Estate,  1782,  1 

Parker.  Mr.,  1754,  1 

Parks,  William,  1750,  1 

Parrott,  Jos.,  Estate,  1766,  1 

Pastuer,  William,  1763-'66,  2 

Patterson,  Mrs.,  1747-'54,  2 

Peale,  John,  1751,  1 

Pearson,  Matthew,  1783,  1 

Penny,  Penl.  1782,  1 

Peters,  Anthony,  1751,  1 

Pierce,  Matthew,  1747-'68,  7 

Pitt,  George,  1762-'67,  9 

Potter,  Dr.,  1754,  1 

Powell,  Benj.,  1762-'83,  8 


Hlpbabctical  List  of  persons  who  bad  Slaves  Baptized    157 


No.  Slaves 
Name  of  Owner  Baptized 

Prentis,  Eliz.,  1768,  1 

Pientis.  Joseph,  1782-'83,  2 

Prentis,   Mary,  1768,  1 

Prentis,  William,  1748-'67,  13 

Priar,  Fredk.,  1762,  1 

Purdy,  Alex.,  1765-'67.  3 

Randal,  Attorney,  1749,  1 

Randal,  Lady,  1754.  2 

Randolph,  John,  1763-'68,  5 

Randolph,  Peyton,  1748-'68,  17 

Randolph,  Lady,  1750,  2 

Ratcliff,  William,  1751,  1 

Reid,  George,  1782,  1 

Riddel,  Mrs  ,  1783,  1 

Roadman,  Mr.,  1783,  1 

Roberts,  Abe,  1747,  1 

Roberts,  William,  1768,  1 
Robinson,      Revd.      Thos., 

1749-'53,  2 

Royle,  Joseph,  1762-'64,  2 

Royle,  Joseph,  Est.,  1766,  1 

Royle,  Mrs.,  1766,  1 

Russel,John,  1749,  1 

Russel,  William,  1783,  1 

Saunders,  John,  1761-'83,  5 

Saunders,  William,  1764,  1 

Scarborough,  Col.,  1747-'50,  2 

Scarborough,  Mrs.,  1749-'54,  5 

Shields,  James,  1747-'83,  31 

Shields,  Matthew,  1747-'56,  3 
Shoemaker,  Jas  Taylor,  1766-68,  2 

Short,  Widow,  1752,  1 

Sidderdel,  Mrs.,  1750,  3 

Singleton,  Ann,  1762,  1 
Singleton,  Ann,  Est.,  1765-'66,     2 

Smith,  Capt.,  1754,  1 

Southall,  Francis,  1763,  1 

Southali,  James,  1765-'83,  5 

Spratley,  William,  1751-'53,  2 

Spurr,  Saml.,  1762-'68,  6 

Stark,  Richard,  1767-'68,  2 

Stay,  Anthony,  1762,  1 


No.  Slaves 
Baptized 


Name  of  Ovyner 
Steel,  Mary,  1747-'64. 
Stevinson,  Mr.,  1749, 
Stith,  Judith,  1766-'68, 
Stith,  Mary,  1751-'6S, 

Stith,  President  Wm.,  1753,  2 

Stott,  Mr.  1754,  2 

Street,  Richard,  1767,  2 

Swiney,  Major,  1748,  1 

Taliaferro.  Charles,  1783,  1 

Tarpley,  Edward,  1749-'50,  3 

Tarpley,  Mrs.  Eliz..  1748-'66,  6 

Taylor,  James,  1763,  1 

Taylor,  John,  1748-'54,  3 

Thornton.  William,  1763,  1 

Timson,  William,  1749-'50,  5 

Timson,  S..  Estate,  1782,  1 

Timson,  Widow,  2 

Trebell.  William,  1760-'68,  1 

Turner,  Joseph,  1750,  1 

Tvler,  Henry,  1750,  1 

Valentine,  Joseph,  1765-'82,  2 

Vobe,  Jane,  1762'68,  4 

Waller,  Benjamin,  1746-'82,  39 

Walters,  Wm.,  1764-'66,  2 
Washington,  Coll.   George, 

1762-68,  11 

Warters,  Wm.,  1762-'65,  2 

Weatherburn,  Ann,  1764,  1 
Weatherburn,  Henry,  1749-'62,    1 

Weatherburn  Estate,  1 

Wheatly,  John,  1751,  1 

Whitaker,  Simon,  1764-'65,  2 
Wm.    and     Mary     College 

1749-'83,  21 

Willis,  Coll.  Francis,  1782-'68,  20 

Woody,  Matthew,  1752,  1 

Wray,  James,  1747-'83,  12 

Wray,  Mary,  1751-'67,  3 

Wythe,  George,  1781-'83,  2 
Wythe,  Nathaniel,  Deed.,  1760,     1 

i  Yates,  Revd.  Wm.,  1762-'64,  4 


Total, 


1122 


HIpbabetical  ILiet  of  Communis 

cants  of  JSruton  Cbutcb 

from  1868  to  1904 


Note — This  list  is  as  complete  as  it  has  been  possible  to  make  it.  All  the  names 
inscribed  in  the  Parish  register  from  1868  to  1904  are  given.  Where  no  records  were 
made,  as  frequently  was  the  case,  an  effort  has  been  made  to  procure  supplementary 
data.  The  names  are  given  as  they  were  entered,  and  there  are  many  w^ho  are  there- 
fore recorded  under  their  maiden  name.  The  date  indicates  the  time  when  the  name 
was  entered,  or  should  have  been  entered. 


Present  Communicants,     t  Name  after  marriage,     ft  Maiden  name. 


*Alexander,  Mrs.  Ann  Letitia  1903 
Ambler,  Mrs.  Thos.  M.,  1868, 
Anderson,  Mrs.,  1868, 
*Armistead,  Miss  Julia  Champion, 

1891, 
Armistead,  Miss  Mary,  (M.  Holtt) 

1879, 
Armistead,  Mrs.  Rebecca  H.,  1894 
*Armistead,  Mr.  Robt.,  1870, 
*Armistead,  Mrs.  Robt.,  1870, 
Armistead,  Miss    Viigiriia   Travis 

(M.  Hardyt),  1891, 
Armistead,  Mrs.  Virginia  Edwards, 

1891, 
Barrett,  Mr.  Chas.,  1889, 
•Becker,  Mr.  H.  S.,  1901, 
Bibb.  Wm.  L.,  (Student)  1891, 
*Bird,  Prof.  Hugh  S.,  1903, 
*Bird,  Mrs.  Hugh  (Smithf),  1903, 
Bishop,  Mrs.  Chas.  EHw.,  1892, 
•Bloxton,  Miss  Lucy,  1895, 
•Bloxton,  Miss  Letitia  W.,  1903. 
Bloxton,    Miss    Mary    Coleman, 

1895, 
•Booth,  Miss  Clara  T.,  1900, 
♦Booth,  Dr.  E.  G.,  1887, 
tBooth,  Mrs.  E.  G.,  1887, 
Booth,    Miss     Frances     R.,     (M. 

Ballentinet),  1892, 


Booth,    Miss    Henrietta    E.    (M. 

Wiset),  1894, 
Booth,  Miss  Luey(M.  Cummingt), 

1887, 
*Booth,  Thompson,  1903, 
Bowery,  Chas.  Bushrod,  1891, 
*Bowery,  Miss  Imogene,  1900, 
Bowman,  Mr.  Sherrard,  1871, 
Bowman,  Mrs.  Sherrard,  1871, 
Boyden,  Mr.  P.  M.,  1870, 
*Braithwaite,  Mrs.  Delia  A. ,  1869, 
Braithwaite,     Miss     Louise      (M. 

Longf),  1900, 
*Braithwaitf,  Miss  Minnie  G.,  1890 
•Braithwaite,  Miss  Ruth,  1900, 
•Braithwaite,  Miss  Virginia,  1901, 
Braithwaite,  Wm.,  1885, 
•Braithwaite,  W.  H.,  1887. 
Branch,  Mrs.  Cyrus  A.,  186«, 
Branch,  Matilda,  1885, 
Bright,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  1868, 
•Bright,  Miss  Jean  (M.  Mercerf), 

1868, 
Bright,  Miss  Nannie  (M.  Cookt) 
•Bright.  Capt.  Robt.  A..  1871, 
Bright,  Mrs.  Robt.  A,,  1871, 
Bright,  Robt.  A.,  Jr.,  1884, 
•Brooks,  Miss  Cora  ( M .  Johnsont) , 

1887, 


List  of  CoTnmunicants  from  1 868  to  1 904 


159 


*Brooks,  Mrs.  Margaret,  1887, 
*Brooks,  Wm,  Montague,  1893, 
Brower,  Dr.  D   R.,  1871, 
Brower,  Mrs,,  1871, 
Brown,  Anne  Chiswell,  1869, 
Brown,  Miss  Sue,  1884, 
Brownell,  Mrs.,  1868, 
*Bucktrout,  Mrs.  Horatio,  1893, 
Burke,  Chas.  W.,  1893. 
Burke,  Francis  M.,  1891, 
Burke,    Mrs.     Maria     (Charlesft) 

1891, 
Burke,  Thomas  Michael,  1891, 
*Burns,   Miss   Clara  (M.  Brooks) 

1899, 
Burrows,     Harry     L.    (Student;, 

1904, 
Buskey,  Jas.  G.  (Student),  1892, 
Camm,  Miss  Annie,  1871, 
Camm,  Charlie,  1884, 
Camm,  Dr.  Edward,  1869, 
Camm,  Mrs.  Edward,  1869, 
Camm,  Edward,  Jr.,  1869, 
Camm,  Miss  Florence,  1870, 
Camm,  Frank,  1869, 
Camm,  John,  1871, 
Carv,    Miss    Harriett   (M.    Chris- 

tianf),  1868, 
Cary,  Mrs.  Lucy  N.,  1868, 
Chichester,  Jno.  C.  (Student),  1892 
*Christian,  Miss  Emily,  1887, 
Christian,  Hodges  M.,  1893, 
'Christian,  Mr.  James  T.,  1887, 
Christian,  Marston,  1895, 
Christian,  Wm.  T.,  1891, 
•Christian,  Mrs.  Wm.  T.,  1884, 
Claiborne,  Mrs.  Mary  B.,  1868, 
Claiborne,  Randolph,  R.  (Student), 

1892, 
Clopton,  Miss  Charlotte,  1887, 
Clopton,  Dr.  John,  1868, 
Clopton,  Miss  Kate,  1887, 
Clowes,  E.  H.,  1887, 
•Cocke,  Miss  Julia,  1884, 


*Cole,  Henry  Dennison,  1903, 
Cole,  Mr.  R.  F.,  1870, 
Cole,  Mrs.  Robt.  F.,  1868, 
Cole,  Robt.  R.,  1871, 
Cole,  Edward,  1871, 
Coleman,  Dr.  Chas.  W.,  1868, 
•Coleman.  Mrs   Chas.  W.,  1868, 
Coleman.  C.  W.  J.,  1884. 
•Coleman,  Miss  Elizabeth,  1884, 
•Coleman,  Miss  Helen  (M.  Leighf), 

1868, 
Coleman,  George  Preston,  1887, 
Coleman,  Tucker,  1884, 
•Colonna,  Wm.  E.  (Student),  1903 
Cosnahan,  Hugh  Mercer,  1872, 
•Cosnahan.     Miss     Mary      M. 

(M.  Stubbst),  1868, 
Cosnahan,      Miss      Roberta       O. 

(M.  Cammt),  1868, 
Coupland,  Mr.  John,  1871, 
Coupland,  Mrs.  John,  1868, 
•Coupland,  Miss  Julia  (M.  Hund- 
ley!), 1868, 
•Coupland,    Miss  Nora  (M.  Spen- 

cerf  ■,  1871, 
Coupland,  Robert,  1887, 
Custis,  Mrs.  Clara,  1868, 
•Custis,    Miss   Elizabeth    F.     (M. 

Amblert),  1871, 
Custis,  Miss  Kate,  1869, 
Custis,  Miss  Florence  ( M.  Colet), 

1869, 
•Custis,  Miss  Margaret  (M.  Hans- 

fordl),  1869, 
Cutherell,  Mr.,  1871, 
Cutherell,  Mrs.,  1871, 
Darlington,  Mrs.,  1868, 
*Darlington,MissMary(M.Jonest), 

1871, 
Darlington,  Miss  Kate  (M,  John- 

sont),  1868, 
Davis,  Mrs.,  1868, 
Davis,  Miss  Lucy  Lee,  (?)  1897, 
•Davis,  Miss  Nannie,  1903, 


160 


List  of  Coininutitcaiits  from  1 868  to  1 904 


Day,  Chas.  Fenton,  1890, 

Dix,  Mrs.  Sarah,  1868, 

Dixon,  Miss  Betty  (M.  Morrisonf), 

1868, 
Dixon,  C.  C,  1884, 
Dod,  Mr.  Chas.  S.,  1871, 
Dod,  Mrs.  Chas.  S,,  1871, 
Dodgson,  Miss,  1870, 
Durfey,  Coll.  G.,  1868, 
♦Durfey,  Mr.  Z.  G.,  1902, 
Edloe,  Miss  Sally  B.,  1868, 
Edwards,  Mr.  Thomas  G.,  1871, 
Eldred,  Mrs.  Harriett  A.,  1893, 
*Elwood,  Mr.  Michael,  1903, 
Evans,  Mrs.  Julia  U.,  1868, 
Ewell,  Coll.  Benj.  S.,  1868, 
*Falkiner,  Miss  Charlotte(M.  Hub- 

bardfj,  1883, 
*Falkiner,  M^ss  Ida,  1887, 
■•Foster,  Dr.  Littleberry  S.,  1903, 
♦Foster,  Mrs.  L  S  ,  1899, 
♦Foster,  Miss  Lucile,  1903, 
♦Foster,  Miss  Mary,  1899, 
♦Foster,  W.  Dixon,  1903, 
♦Gait,  Miss  Annie  A.,  1893, 
Gait,  Miss  Elizabeth  A.,  1899, 
Gait,  Miss  Mary  J.,  1894, 
Gait,  Miss  Mary  M.,  1897, 
Gait,  Mrs.  Mary  W.,  1893, 
Gait,  Miss  Sally  M.,  1868, 
♦Garrett,  Miss  Lottie,  1868, 
♦Garrett,  Miss  Mary,  1871, 
Garrett,  Dr.  Robt.  M.,  1868, 
Garrett,  Mrs.  Robt.  M.,  1868, 
Garrett,  Miss  Susan  C.    (M.   Nel- 

sont),  1871, 
♦Garrett,  Dr.  Van  F.,  1869, 
♦Garrett,  Mrs.  Van  F.,  1896, 
Garrett,  W.  R.,  1868, 
Gay,  Miss  Bettie,  1871, 
Glover,  Perkins  (Student),  1891, 
♦Goodwin,  Mrs.  W.  A.  R.,  1903, 
♦Gore,  Mr.  Wra.,  1887, 
Gore,  Mrs.  Wm.,  1887, 


Graves,  Walter  R.  Student),  1891 
Gregory,  Judge  Jno.  M.,  1884, 
Gregory,  Mrs.  Jno.  M  ,  1884, 
Gregory,  Miss  Letty,  1884, 
Hall.  Dr.  J.  Lesslie,  1889, 
♦Hall,  Mrs.  J.  Lesslie,  1890, 
Halstead,  Miss  Q.  N.,  1871, 
Hancock,  Mrs.  Clarissa,  1868, 
Hancock,  Miss  Sophia,  1868, 
Hankins,  Miss  Alice,  1868, 
Hankins.  Mr.  Geo.,  1868, 
♦Hankins,  Mrs.  Geo.,  1868, 
♦Hankins,  Miss  Harriet  (M.  Rich- 
ardson!), 1868, 
♦Hankins,    Miss   Harriet    Parker, 

1903, 
Hankins,  Reynolds,  1899, 
Hansford,  Mr.  Chas.,  1887, 
♦Harrison,  Miss  Louise,  1903, 
Harrison,  Coll.  Randolph,  1870, 
♦Harrison,  Mrs.  Randolph,  1870, 
♦Harrison,  Randolph,  1902, 
Hauley,  Mrs.,  1868, 
Hazlegrove,  Mr.,  1868, 
Hazlegrove,  Mrs.,  1868, 
♦Henley,  Miss  Bettie,  1885, 
♦Henley,  Miss  Catharine  N.,  1898, 
Henley,  Mrs.  Harriet,  1868, 
♦Henley,  Miss  Ida  G.,  1898, 
Henley,  Miss  Janie  W  ,  1892. 
♦Henley,  Leonard,  1887, 
♦Henley,  Mrs.  Norvellt  L.,  1898, 
♦Hensley,   Miss   Emily  Marianne, 

1900, 
Hensley,    Miss    Florence     G.    (M. 

Baron  de  Launayt,',  1900, 
Herbert,    Thomas    S.     (Student), 

1893, 
Hinton,  Coll.  Peter,  1884, 
Hobson,  A.  G.  W.,  1871, 
Hobson,    Mr.     Canon    (Student), 

1871, 
Holston.A.W.  (Student),  1894, 
♦Hoy,  Dr.  W.  P.,  1899, 


List  of  Comniumcatits  fvorn  1868  to  1904 


161 


♦Hughes,     Sidney     S.     (Student), 

1903, 
Humphreys,  Harry  G.  (Student), 

1904, 
*Hundley,  A.  E.,  1887, 
Hundley.  H.  L.,  1887, 
*Hundley,  Mrs.  M.  Brooks,  1891, 
♦Hundley,  Miss  Sue  D  ,  1902, 
Hunnicutt,  Miss  Lizzie,  1868, 
Hurt,  Mrs.  Mary,  1868, 
♦Jackson,  Miss  Lelia,  (M.  Durfeyt) 

1871. 
♦Johnston,  Mr.  W.  C,  1894, 
Jones,  Mr.  Henley  T.,  1868, 
Jones,  Mrs.  H.  T.,  1868, 
Jones,  Hugh  W..  1893, 
♦Jones.  Miss  Marian  A.  ( M.  Stonet), 

1891, 
Jones,  Mr.  Wm.,  1883, 
Kincheloe,  Edw.  R.  (Stu.),  1892, 
*Knight,  Jno.  W.,  1904, 
♦Knight,  Mrs.  Jno.  W,,  1904, 
Lacy,  Mr.  T.  S.,  1871, 
♦Lamb,  Miss  Bessie,  1903, 
Lamb,  Mrs.  Harriet,  1868, 
♦Lamb,  Junius  B  ,  1903, 
♦Lamb,  Mrs.  Kate(Branchtt),1903 
♦Lane,  Miss  Carrie  D.  (M.  Colef), 

1885, 
Lane,  Miss  Cora  (M.  Denmeadet), 

1891, 
♦Lane,  Capt.  L.  W.,  Sr.,  1904, 
Lane,  L.  W.,  Jr.,  1887, 
♦Lane,  Mrs.  L.  W.,  Sr.,  1888, 
♦Lane,  Spencer,   1894, 
Langhorne,  Mr.,  1869, 
Langhome,  Mrs  ,  1869, 
Lawrence,  N.  T.,  1904, 
Lea,  Coll.  John,  1868, 
Lea,  Mrs.  Margaret  D.,  1868, 
Lee,  Miss  Petticolas(M.  Powellt), 

1891, 
♦Lightfoot,  Herbert  C,  1904, 
Lively,  Mrs.  E.  H.,  1871, 


Lively,  Miss  L  (M.  Boweryf),  1869 
*Macon,  Mr.  W.  H.,  1894, 
♦Macon,  Mrs.  Mary  G  ,  1894, 
Maupin,  Catherine  G.,  1891, 
Maupin,  Miss  Virginia  E.,  1891, 
Maupin,    Miss     Sarah     (M.     Bid- 

goodt),  1868, 
McCandlish,  Mrs.  M.,  1868, 
McCandlish,  Miss  Mary,  1871, 
McCandlish,  Robt.  N.,  1887, 
McCaw,  Jas.  B.,  1891, 
♦Meade,  Jos.  W.  (Student),  1903, 
Mercer,  Corbin,  1878, 
Mercer,  Miss  L  S.  W.,  1871, 
♦Mercer,  Miss  Jean,  1891, 
♦Mercer,  Mr.  Jno.  L.,  1871, 
Mercer,  Miss  Kate,  1868, 
Mercer,  Mrs.  Mary  C,  1868, 
♦Mercer,  Miss  Mary  W.,  1894, 
Mercer,  Mr.  Robt.,  1871. 
Miller,  Chas.  D.  (Student),  1903, 
♦Moncure,  Mrs.  Blanch  T.,  1891, 
Moncure,  GabriellaB.,  1891, 
Moncure,  Dr.  J.  D.,  1887, 
♦Morecock,     Miss    Elizabeth     A,, 

1891, 
♦Morecock,  Miss  Kathryne,  1894, 
♦Morecock,  Miss  Mary  A.,  1891, 
♦Morecock,  Mrs.  Virginia  M  ,  1870 
Morecock,  Miss  Virginia,  1898, 
Morris,  Mr.  Chas.,  1871, 
Morris,  Miss  Louisa  G.,  1871, 
Morris,  Miss  Mary,  1868, 
Morris,  Mrs.  W.  L.,  1868, 
Morrison,  Miss  Emily,  1868, 
Motley,  Mr.  John,  1870, 
Motley,  Mrs.  John,  1868, 
Munford,  Col.  John,  1868, 
Munford,  Mrs.  John  D.,  1868, 
Munford,  Miss  Maria,  1868, 
Munford,       Miss       Nanny       (M. 

Brightt),  1868, 
Munford,  Miss  Sally  (M.  Colest), 

1868, 


162 


List  of  Communicants  from  1 868  to  1 904 


Munier,  Mr..  1870, 
*Neale,  Mrs.  Mary  E.,  1871, 
Nelson,  Miss  Sally  B.,  1868, 
♦Nimnio,  Miss  Otelia,  1868, 
*0'Keeflfe,  Francis  C,  1908, 
♦O'Keeffe,  Miss  Georgia  T.,  1903, 
*0'Keefre,  Mrs.  Ida  T.  E.,  1903, 
Peachy,  B.  D.,  Sr.,  1887, 
♦Peachy,  Mrs  Bathurst  D.,  1903, 
Peachy,  Miss  Betty,  1868, 
Peachy,  Miss  Mittie  (M.    Wiset), 

1870, 
*Peachy,MissSallie(M.  Spencerf), 

1868, 
Petticolas,  Dr.  A.  E.,  1868, 
Petticolas,  Mrs.  A.  E.,  1868, 
♦Phillips,  Mrs.  H.  N.,  1897, 
Pettitt,  Mrs.,  1868, 
Pettitt,  Miss  Louisa,  1868, 
Pierce,  Mrs.  Rebecca,  1868, 
Richardson,  Dabney,  1891, 
Riddick,  Sam'l  A.  (Student),  1893, 
♦Roberts,  Mr.  Lloyd  Wynn,  1901, 
*Roberts,  Mrs.  Lloyd  Wynn,  1901, 
Roberts,  Mrs.  Wm.  T.,  1894, 
♦Rose,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  T.,  1889, 
♦Ruffin,  Mrs.  Edmund,  1903, 
Saunders,  Miss  Page,  1868, 
Saunders,  Mrs.  Robt.,  1868, 
♦Savage,  P.  R.,  1903, 
Savage,  Mrs.  T.  L.,  1868, 
Scott,  Mr.,  1870, 
♦Scott,  Miss  Bessie,  1884, 
Scott,  Mrs.  Elizabeth,  1869, 
Shepherd,  Mrs.  John  H.,  1893, 
♦Sherwell,  Mrs.  Anna  H.,  1868, 
Sherwell,  Miss  Ann,  1868, 
♦Sherwell,  Miss  Eliz.  Parks,  1868, 
♦Sherwell,  Miss  Mary  K.,  1868, 
Slater,  Mrs.  Virginia,  1868, 
*Smith,  A.  E.,  1887, 
♦Smith,  Miss  Alice  C,  1871, 
*Smith,  Miss  Cora,  1884, 
Smith,  Miss  L.  B.,  1871, 


♦Smith,  Miss  Edith,  1884, 
♦Smith,  Miss  Estelle,  1884, 
Smith,  Mi.ss  Helen,  1871, 
Smith,  Henry,  1884, 
Smith,  Julia  (colored),  1868, 
Smith,  Miss  Mattie  'M.  Hughest), 

1870, 
Smith,  Sidney,  1884, 
Smith,    Miss    Virginia   (M.   New- 

biUt),  1871, 
Smith,  Mrs.  Virginia,  1868, 
Smith,  Mrs.  Willard,  1870, 
Southall,  Evelyn  McL,  1891, 
Southall,  Mr.  Francis,  1884, 
Southall,  Miss  H.  M.,  1868, 
Southall,  Miss  Kate,  1868, 
Southall,  Miss  Lillie,  1885, 
Southall,  Miss  Lizzie  (M.  Turnerf), 

1868, 
♦Southall,  Dr.  P.  T.,  1899, 
♦Southall,  Mrs.  P.  T.,  1899, 
Southall,  Mrs.  Virginia,  1884, 
Southall,  Miss  Virginia,  1868, 
♦Spencer,  J.  B.  C,  1899, 
♦Spencer,  J.  Blair,  1899, 
♦Spencer,  Miss  Martha,  1898, 
♦Spencer,  Miss  Mary  B.,  1903, 
*Spencer,  Mrs.  Mary,  1887, 
♦Spencer,  Peachy,  1901, 
Stephenson,  Miss  J.,  1869, 
*Stubbs,  Miss  Lucy  C,  1897, 
♦Stubbs,  Miss  Mary  M.,  1903, 
♦Stubbs,  Thos,  J.,  Jr.,  1894, 
♦Sweeney,  Miss  Annie  (M.  Leavert), 

1885, 
•Sweeney,  Miss  Florence,  1895, 
♦Sweeney,  Miss  Garnett,  1895, 
♦Sweeney,  Henley,  1895, 
♦Sweeney,  Mr.  H.  M.,  1887, 
♦Sweeney,  Mrs.  Ida,  1887, 
♦Sweeney,  Miss  Nellie,  1885, 
Sweeney,  Wilmer,  1894, 
♦Tabor,  Mrs.  E.J.,  1902, 
Taliaferro,  Mrs.  Bland,  1884, 


List  of  Cotntnumcatita  from  1 868  to  1 904 


163 


Taylor,  Mrs.  N.,  Sr.,  1868, 
Taylor,  Mrs.,  1868, 
Taylor,  Mrs.  Nathaniel,  Jr.,  1868, 
Taylor,    F.    Suthgate    (Student), 

l'894, 
Taylor,  Tazwell  (Student),  1891, 
Thomas,  Upton  B.  (Student),  1892 
Thompson,  Miss  Julia,  1868, 
Thompson,  P.Montague,  :891, 
Tiernon,  Jno.  L,  (Student),  1893, 
Tucker,  Mr.  Kobt.   H.  (Student), 

1893, 
Tucker,  St.  Geo.    Student).  1893, 
Tucker,  Thomas,  1870, 
Tucker,  Mrs.  Thomas,  1870, 
Turner,  Mr.  J.  W.,  1870, 
Turner,  Mr.  Thurston,  1871, 
•Tyler,  Mrs.  Annie  (Tuckertt),  1889 
*Tyler,  Miss  Elizabeth  G.,  1902, 
*Tyler,  Miss  Julia  G.,  1897, 
Tyler,  Harry  T.  (Student),  1891, 
Yanneison,  Mr.,  1871, 
Vaughan,  Mrs.  Bessie,  1869, 
Vest,  Mrs.  Mary,  1868, 
Vest,  Miss  Willie,  1868, 
Waller,  Maj.  H.  M.,  1885, 
Waller,  John,  1869, 
Waller,  Mrs.  Julia,  1868, 
Waller,  Miss  Kate  Page(M.  Lang- 
hornet  ■,  1868, 
Waller,  Mrs.  Nanny,  1868, 


Waller,  Mr.  Robt.  Page,  1868, 
*Warburton,  Miss  Letty,  1887, 
Ware,  Mrs.,  1871, 
Warren,  Mrs.,  1868, 
*Webb,  Miss  Susan  G.,  1894, 
Weinberger,  Mrs.,  1868, 
Weymouth,  John  (Student',  1891, 
*Wharton,  Miss  Alice,  1903, 
Wilburn,  Miss  G.,  1871, 
Wilburn.  Mr.  E.  D.,  1870, 
Wilburn,  Mrs.  Sarah,  1871, 
♦Wilkins,  Miss  Hattie  A.,  1891, 
Wilkinson,  Miss,  1868. 
Wilkinson,  Mr.  Gary,  1868, 
Wilkinson,  Mrs.  Gary,  1870, 
Wilkinson,  Miss  Willie,  1868, 
Wilkinson,  Miss  Virginia,  1871, 
Williams,  Mrs.  L.  W  ,  1887, 
WilUams,  Miss  Eleanor,  1892, 
Williams,  Miss  Elizabeth,  1892, 
Williams,  Miss  Mary  H.,  1892, 
Williamson,  Mrs.  Mary,  1868, 
W^ilmer,  Mrs.  Geo.  T.,  1870, 
Wilmer,  Miss  Annie,  1870, 
Wilmer,  Geo.  T.,  D.D.,  1870, 
W;imer,  Miss  Mary,  1870, 
Wills,  Jas.  Henry  (Student),  1892, 
*Wise,  Miss  Jennie,  1894, 
Wooten,  Miss  Delia  A.  G.,  1885, 
•Wright,     Arthur    D.     (Student), 
1903. 


{WicctirxQ  of  the  Hbvisov^  Commit== 

tee  on  the  IRestoration  of 

Btuton  Cburcb 


On  Thursday  morning,  Februarj'^  25th,  1904,  a  meet- 
ing of  the  Advisory  Committee  on  the  Restoration  of 
Bruton  Church  was  held  in  the  Church  at  11  o'clock,  Rt. 
Rev.  A.  M.  Randolph,  D.  D  ,  LL.  D.,  Rev.  B.  D.  Tucker,  D.  D., 
and  Rev.  J.  J.  Gravatt,  of  the  Advisory  Committee,  were 
present.  Divine  service  was  said  in  the  Church  at  eleven 
o'clock  by  the  Bishop  of  the  Diocese,  assisted  by  the  Rector 
of  the  Church.  Immediately  after  the  service  the  members 
of  the  Advisory  Committee  above  mentioned,  with  Dr.  Van 
F.  Garrett,  S.  W.,  Mr.  H.  D.  Cole,  Register,  Mr.  John  L. 
Mercer  and  Dr.  L.  S.  Foster,  members  of  the  Vestry,  met 
in  the  North  Transcept  of  the  Church.  The  Rector,  Rev. 
W.  A.  R.  Goodwin,  introduced  Mr.  J.  Stewart  Barney, 
Architect,  of  New  York  City,  and  stated  that  Mr.  Barney, 
who  w^as  a  Virginian  by  birth,  and  devoted  to  the  cause 
of  preserving  Virginia  antiquities,  had  very  kindly  and 
generously  offered  to  prepare  plans  and  specifications  for 
the  restoration  of  Bruton  Church  to  its  original  form 
without  charge  to  the  Church.  Bishop  Randolph  was 
called  to  the  chair,  and  Mr.  H.  D.  Cole,  of  the  Vestry,  was 
appointed  secretary  of  the  meeting.  The  following  reso- 
lution w^as  then  offered  by  the  Bishop,  and  was  unani- 
mously adopted  by  the  Advisory  Committee,  Rector,  and 
Vestry: 

Resolved:  First,  That  the  generous  offer  of  Mr.  J. 
Stewart  Barney  to  submit  plans  and  specifications  for  the 
restoration  of  Bruton  Church  be  accepted  with  the  thanks 
of  the  vestry,  congregation,  and  the  diocese. 

The  work  proposed  w^as  then  carefully  considered  and 
fully  discussed.  The  following  resolutions  were  unani- 
mously adopted  by  the  Advisory  Committee,  subject  to 
the  approval  of  the  Parish  Vestry  and  the  Architect : 


Meeting  of  the  Hdxnsory  ComTmttcc  165 

Resolved:  Second,  That  the  Architect  be  requested  to 
restore,  as  far  as  possible,  the  Colonial  Governors'  pew 
and  the  old  corner  pulpit,  with  canopy  and  sounding- 
board,     (Adopted.) 

Resolved:  Third,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Advisory 
Committee  that  the  present  partition  obstructing  the 
west  end  of  the  Church  be  removed,  and  the  nave  restored 
to  its  original  form.     (Adopted.) 

Resolved:  Fourth,  That  it  is  the  senseof  the  Advisory 
Committee  that  the  gallery  in  the  east  end  of  the  Church 
be  removed  unless  it  be  found  that  it  belonged  to  the 
original  form  of  the  Church.    (Adopted.) 

Resolved:  Fifth,  That  the  Architect  be  advised  to 
restore  the  aisles  to  their  former  condition  in  so  far  as  in 
his  judgment  it  may  be  necessary  for  the  restoration. 
(Adopted.) 

Resolved:  Sixth,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Advisory 
Committee  that  the  chancel  be  placed  in  the  east  end  of 
the  Church.    (Adopted.) 

There  was  a  decided  conviction  on  the  part  of  all  who 
were  present  at  this  meeting  that  in  view  of  the  fact  that 
this  Church  is  more  intimately  associated  than  any  other 
in  America  with  the  life  and  history  of  the  Colonial 
period,  it  should  be  faithfully  and  completely  restored  to 
its  original  form  and  appearance,  in  so  far  as  such  resto- 
ration will  not  materially  unfit  the  Church  for  its  present 
and  future  use  in  the  service  of  God,  for  which  purpose  it 
was  built,  and  must,  primarily,  be  perpetually  devoted. 

IRatificatlon  bp  tbe  jparteb  IDeetri? 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Parish  Vestry  held  on  March  12th, 
1904,  the  resolutions  above  mentioned  were  unanimously 
adopted  and  ratified.  A  resolution  of  the  Advisory  Com- 
mittee relative  to  the  restoration  of  the  galleries  added  to 
the  Church,  (see  pages  43  and  44)  was  held  in  abeyance 
for  further  consideration  by  the  Vestry  and  Architect. 


Conclubino  Bote 

Preserve  the  Antiquities  That  Remain! 

The  assurance  that  this  book  will  necessarily  aid  in 
preserving  the  contents  of  the  historical  records  and 
memorials  of  a  by-gone  age  guarantees  the  fulfilment  of 
the  prime  purpose  with  which  the  work  was  undertaken. 
What  time  has  forever  obliterated,  what  careless  scribes 
never  recorded,  what  more  careless  custodians  possessed 
and  lost  or  mutilated  of  the  records  of  the  past,  we  vainly 
begrudge. 

We  trust  that  this  desire  for  what  is  lost,  and  a  deeper 
appreciation  of  what  has  been  preserved,  will  stimulate 
this  and  succeeding  generations  to  guard  and  protect  and 
carefully  preserve  the  old  Church,  and  the  original  records 
upon  paper,  and  in  marble  which  tell,  in  the  language  of 
our  fore-fathers,  somewhat  of  its  history'. 

These  memorials  of  the  past  are  of  priceless  value,  and 
no  cost  should  be  spared  to  preserve  them.  Here,  and 
elsewhere  in  Virginia,  are  records  and  memorials  w^hich  at 
present  are  in  danger  of  being  destroyed  by  fire,  and  which 
are  being  injured  by  handling,  and  by  exposure.  Provision 
should  be  made  for  their  preservation.  Vaults  absolutely 
fire-proof  should  be  built  for  receiving  them.  The  pages 
of  old  record  books  and  parish  registers  should  be  covered 
with  silk.  Each  A^ear  adds  to  their  value,  but  as  now 
preserved  and  protected  each  day  imperils  their  very 
existence. 

Even  now  there  are  times  when  restorers  and  anti- 
quarians would  gladly  give  thousands  of  dollars  for  one 
page  of  an  old  vestry  book  that  would  bring  back  an 
original  description  of  a  chancel  plan,  or  tell  the  exact 
location  of  some  historic  spot.  But  the  page  is  gone.  It 
was  consigned  to  the  care  of  the  mice,  or  torn  out  by  the 
parson's  boy,  or  burned,  after  having  been  preserved 
hundreds  of  years,  with  the  rector's  house  or  the  home  of 
a  vestryman.  We  are  coming  to  realize  the  folly  and  mis- 
fortune  of  all   this.     And  yet  much  that  remains  of  the 


Concluding  Note  167 

historic  past  is  still  left  without  safeguard  and  protection. 
The  custodian  of  these  time-honored  memorials  holds  a 
sacred  trust,  and  should  guard  that  trust  with  fidelity. 
It  is  possible  to  arouse  a  sentiment  that  will  work  good 
results  in  this  direction.  There  is  much  that  is  insecurely 
preserved  in  the  Episcopal  church  in  Virginia,  which  will 
be  lamented  as  forever  lost  unless  this  matter  receives  the 
attention  it  deserves. 


flame  "inbcx 


The  numbers  in  parenthesis  denote  the  number  of  times  the  name  occurs  on  the  page 

indicated. 


Abbott,  117. 

Able,  131. 

Alcorn,  140. 

Aleraft,  141. 

Alexander,  124,  141,  158. 

Alintof,  139. 

Allardis,  137. 

Allen,  139(2). 

Ambler,  60,  61,  118,  154,  158. 

Am3',  154. 

Anderson,  59  (3),   122,  128,  129, 

137,  139,  154  (2),  158. 
Andrews,  52,  130. 
Andros,  18. 

Anne,  Queen,  69,  76,  88. 
Anson,  154. 
Archer,  71,  90,  98, 115  (2),  119  (2), 

125,  134,  135,  138,  141  (2),  etc. 
Armistead,  90,  120,  125,  154  (3), 

158  (7). 
Arnest,  128,  129. 
Atherton,  125. 
Atkins,  122,  ,123,  124. 
Atwood,  135,  136,  141. 
Aylett,  12,  14,  119,  134,  135. 
Aynscough,  126  (5),  154. 

Bag,  141. 

Backercet,  140. 

Backhurst,  141. 

Bacon,  130,  150. 

Bainton,  136. 

Baker,  131,  140,  154. 

Baldridge,  114. 

Ball,  42. 

Ballard,  119  (2),  134,  136. 

Banister,  132. 

Barber,  119,  141  (2),  154. 

Barden,  122,  123,  142. 

Bardett,  154. 

Barnes,  126,  128,  133,  134. 


Barnet,  115. 

Barney,  164. 

Barradall,  102, 115, 119,  120, 154. 

Barrett,  139,  158. 

Bartle,  125. 

Bartlett,  138. 

Barton,  149  (2). 

Bascom,  135. 

Baskerfield,  154. 

Bassett,  55,  120,  128,  154. 

Bates,  134,  135,  136(3),  137,154. 

Batos,  133. 

Battaile,  90. 

Batten,  132  (2),  137. 

Beale,  119,  130. 

Beall,  154. 

Becker,  158. 

Bee,  134,  141. 

Bell,  124,  125,  126,  127,  128,  134, 

135  (2). 
Bellini,  154. 
Bendall,  125,  127. 
Bengerfield,  139. 
Bentley,  138,  139. 
Berkley,  7,  12,  89,  132,  151. 
Besouth,  12,  14,35,  119, 135,136, 

141. 
Besser,  154. 
Besserer,  131. 
Bessy,  134. 
Beverly,  7,  15. 
Bibb,  158. 
Bingham,  116. 
Binkfield,  132,  133,  136. 
Bird,  125,  158  (2) 
Bishop,  158, 
Bisit,  134  (2). 
Black,  128. 
Blackburn,  115. 
Blackley,  97,  116. 
Blaikley,  142,  154(2) 


Name  Index 


169 


Blair,  26,  27,  28,29,30,31,33(2), 
36,  37,  38(3),39, 43, 51, 80,106, 
107,  108,  115,116,  118,  119(2), 
122(2),  123  (.2),  126,  127,  142, 
154. 

Bland,  8,  119,  128. 

Blassingham,  127,  130. 

Bloxton,  158  (3). 

Blouette,  140. 

Bocock,  154. 

Boiling,  32  (2). 

Bolton,  126,  130,  140. 

Bond,  126,  127,  128,  129. 

Bonyman,  15,  41,  137  (4),  138, 
140. 

Booker,  130,  154. 

Booth,  120,  158  (7). 

Bowcock,  154. 

Bowers,  59. 

Bowery,  158,  (2). 

Bowman,  158  (2). 

Boyden,  132,  158. 

Bracken,  48,  49,  51,  52,  69,  118, 
130(2),  131. 

Bradford,  123. 

Bradley,  127. 

Braithwaite,  158(7). 

Brand,  135. 

Branch,  158  (2). 

Bray,  12.  42,  86,  108,  109,  110, 
116  (5),  119  (5),  131,  134, 
136  (2),  139,  140  (3),  154  (3). 

Brewer,  137. 

Bridgers,  135,  142. 

Bridson,  140. 

Briggs,  116  (2). 

Bright,  59,  120,  158  (6). 

Bristow,  130,  131. 

Broad,  135. 

Broadbank,  139. 

Brock,  quoted,  87. 

Bromfield,  132  (2). 

Brook,  141. 

Brookman,  137. 


Brooks,  137,  158,  159  (2). 
Brower,  120,  135,  138,  159  (2). 
Brown,  104,  107,  116,  123,  124, 

125, 128, 129  (2),  154  f  3),  1 59  (2) 
Browne,  59. 
Brownell,  159. 
Bryan,    40,    119,    123,    125    (2), 

126    (2),     128,    129,    141    (2), 

154  (7). 
Bryum,  142. 
Buck,  quoted,  68,  142. 
Bucktrout,  115(6),  120,  159. 
Buffin,  140. 
Buford,  154. 
Bulger,  141. 
Bullifant,  130,  154, 
Bullock,  133, 
Burch,  61,62,  118. 
Burdett,  154. 
Burfoot,  154. 
Burgess,  95,  116. 
Burke,  159  (4). 
Burkey,  135. 
Burns,  159. 
Burrish,  141. 
Burrows,  159. 
Burton,  140. 
Burum,  142. 
Burwell,  29,  38  (2),  40,  59,  115, 

119,  120,  123  (2),  154  (7). 
Buskey,  159. 
Byrd,  42,  88,  122  (2),  123. 

Cabaniss,  117,  120. 

Cain,  142. 

Camm,  118,  159(8). 

Camp,   123,    128    (2),   129,  142, 

154  (4). 
Campbell,  55,  120,  128,  154  (4). 
Carter,  59,  122  (2),  125,  126  (4), 

127(4),  128  (3),  129(3),  130,(2), 

154  (7). 
Cary,  33,  59,  114,   119,  140  (2), 

159  (2). 


170 


Name  Index 


Casement,  136. 

Casey,  138. 

Casper,  115, 

Chapman,  155. 

Charlton,  94,  116,  128,  155  (2). 

Chesley,  12,  119,  134. 

Chichester,  159. 

Chiswell,  80, 155  (2). 

Chowning,  126,  155. 

Christian.  59,  60,  120  (3),  159(6). 

Claiborne,  13,  159  (2). 

Clark,  133. 

Clarke,  136,  137. 

Clay,  39. 

Clayton,  119,  129,  137  (2),  142, 

Clopton,  120,  159  (3). 

Clows,  116. 

Clowes,  159. 

Coales,  155. 

Cobb,  12,  14,  135,  (2),  139,  140. 

Cobbs,  36,  119  (4),  123,  135, 136, 

138  (3),  139,  140,  155  (2). 
Cock,  123. 
Cocke,    89,    90,    129,    140,    155, 

159. 
Cogbill,  116. 
Coke,  59,  120,  122,  123,  126  (2), 

127,155(4). 
Cole,  55,  59,  60,  61,  64,  120  (4), 

126,    128,    131,   (2).   133,   135, 

140,  159(5},  164. 
Coleman,  59,60,115,116,120(2), 

139,  152,  159  (7). 
CoUett,  93,  116. 
Colonna,  (159). 
Colvil,  142, 
Coman,  136. 
Connilly,  127,  128,  129. 
Conrad,  149. 
Contesse,  90,  141. 
Cook,  133,  139  (2),  142. 
Cooper,  133,  134,  136,  141. 
Copeland,  120. 
Cordwainer,  137. 


Corker,  119,  134. 

Corking,  135,  138. 

Cornon,  133. 

Corville,  136. 

Cosby,  122,  140,  141,  155. 

Cosnahan,  159  (3). 

Cotton,  155. 

Coupland,  159  (5). 

Couser,  142. 

Coulthard,  121,  155. 

Cowles,  131. 

Crabtree,  133. 

Craig,  125,  126,  128. 

Craige,  155  (2). 

Craton,  127. 

Crawford,  114. 

Crawley,  18,  20,  119  (2),  125  (2), 

130,  155(6). 
Crease,  142,  155. 
Crenshaw,  132  (3),  133  (2),  135. 
Crisps,  137. 
Crocus,  137. 
Cromley,  80. 
Crone,  128. 
Crooke,  135. 
Cumbo,  131  ''3) 
Cunningham,  140. 
Curteen,  14  (3). 
Curtis,  125. 
Custis,  8,  43,  88,  89,  116  (3),  119, 

139,  143,  150  (5),  151,  155,  (4), 

159  (5). 
Cutherell,  159  (2). 

Daisy,  114. 

Dale,  155. 

Dandridge,  89. 

Daniel,  136. 

Daniell,  133. 

Dargau,  114. 

Darlington,  159  (3). 

Davenport,  124  (2 j,  125  (2',  126, 

127     (3),    128,     129,     140     (2), 

141  (2),  155  (3). 


IVamc  Index 


171 


Davis,    96,   123  (2),  124,  132  (6j, 
133,  135  (2),  136,  137,  138,  139, 

140(2),  141(4),  159(3). 
Davidson,  143  (2). 
Dawson,     37,    38,    39,    44,    118, 

155  (4). 
Day,  138,  155,  160. 
Dean,  130,  140. 
Deekens,  120. 
Dehart,  116. 
Delonj,  140. 
Dennis,  128.  132,  139. 
Dennison,  60,  118,  148. 
Desveer,  138. 
Dew,  59. 
Dewbre,  129, 
Dick,  131. 

Dickenson,  155  (2). 
Dickeson,  135. 
Dickinson,  122  (3;,  123,  124,   125, 

134,  155. 
Dickson,  130. 
Didip,  125. 
Digby,  135. 
Digges,  112,  124,  155. 
Diggs,  113,  121,  123. 
Dinwiddie,  7. 
Dix,  116,  160. 
Dixon,    116,    120,    12C,    155  (3), 

160(2). 
Dod,  160  (2). 
Dodgson,  160. 
Doran,  127. 
Dorman,  18,  82. 
Dormar,  20,  119,  134. 
Dormer,  78. 
Douglas,  142. 
Dowson,  137. 

Doyley,  20,  22 (2),  78, 118, 137  (3). 
Drake,  136. 
Drewitt,  138,  139. 
Druitz,  130,  155. 
Drumond,  155  (2). 
Drummond,  151. 


Drysdale,  7. 

Dubree,  130,  131. 

Dudley,  90. 

Duffin,  140. 

Dugger,  115. 

Dunford,  132. 

Dunmore,  7,  43. 

Dunn,  124,  127. 

Dunston,  139,  140. 

Durfey,  59,  60  (2),  61,  117  (3), 
120  (2),  122,  123  (5),  126  (2), 
129,  133,  134,  146,  160  (2). 

Dyer,  106,  116,  138  (2),  139  (3), 
140(3),  141  (2). 

Earnshaw,  129. 

Eaton,  39,  119,  120,  124,  155  (3). 

Eburne,  17,  18,  19,  20,  118,  145. 

Edloe,  55,  59,  120  (2),  160. 

Edmunds,  142. 

Edwards,  134,  160. 

Effingham,  18. 

Eggleston,  127. 

Eldred,  160. 

Elwood,  160. 

Empie,  54,  56,  118. 

English,  155. 

Equo,  133. 

Esco,  122. 

Evans,  120,  132,  135(2),  136,  137, 

160. 
Evelyn,  88. 

Everard,  39,  40,  119,  155. 
Everitt,  141. 
Ewell,  120,  160. 

Falkiner,  160  (2). 
Farmer,  138. 
Fauquier,  7,  91,  121,  155. 
Fear,  129,  135. 
Fellows,  135. 
Fenn, 13. 
Fennock,  140. 
Fergusson,  142, 155  (2). 


172 


Name  Index 


Field,  134. 

Filpott,  138  C2). 

Finnie,  131,  155(3). 

Fisher,  132. 

Fitzhugh,  102. 

Flax,  130. 

Flemming,  50,  142. 

Folio,  (and  'ot)  132  (2),  142. 

Forbar,  141. 

Force,  122. 

Foster.  120, 160  (5),  164. 

Foy,  122. 

Frank,  95,  116,  125. 

Frederick,  134. 

Fry,  122  (2). 

Gait,  56,  57,  59(2),  60  (2),  117, 
120  (2),  126,  130  (2),  131  (4), 
155,  160  (6). 

Gardner,  14,  16,119,134,136,145. 

Garland,  135,  155  (2). 

Garrett,  59,  60,  61,  63,  64, 116(6), 
120  (3),  149,  160  (8),  164. 

Gary,  139. 

Gay,  160. 

Geady,  122. 

Geddy,  127,  155. 

George,  III,  King,  46,  48,  70. 

George,  140. 

Gibbs,  131,  138. 

Gibson,  137. 

Gilbert,  135,  139,  140, 155. 

Gilbey,  132,  134. 

Giles,  122,  136. 

Gill,  141. 

Gillman,  116. 

Gilmer,  122,  155. 

Glass,  122,  155. 

Glasscock,  136,  140. 

Glover,  160. 

Godfrey,  129. 

Goding,  136. 

Gold,  136. 

Gooch,  7,  69, 142, 155. 


Gooding,  140. 

Goodson,  130,  155. 

Goodwin,  26,  27,63,118,137,138, 

140,  160,164. 
Gore,  160  (2). 
Gorham,  136, 
Gough,  155. 
Grace,  23,  79,  80,  81. 
Grady,  115. 
Grammar,  147,  148. 
Gravatt,  64,  164. 
Gravenor,  135. 
Graves,  40,  119  (3),  126,  130-132, 

133  (3),  136,  137,  142,  155  (3), 

160. 
Green,  122,  125,  136,137,139,141, 

155. 
Greenhow,  98, 105, 116  (3),126,155 
Green  Spring,  151. 
Greenwood,  130  (3). 
Gregory,  90,  133,  160  (3). 
Griffin,  55,  59,  117,  120,  134,  155. 
Grinley,  97,  116. 
Groymes,  142. 
Grymes,  155. 
Gun,  155, 
Gutteridge,  133. 
Gwinn,  135. 
Gyles,  135. 

Haile,  134. 
Hale,  135. 
Haley,  135,  137. 

Hall,  87,  120,  138,  139,  160  (2). 
Halstead,  160. 
Hames,  138. 
Hammer,  136,  138. 
Hammond,  142. 
Hancock,  160  (2) 
Handy,  135. 
Hankins,  142,  160  (6). 
Hansel,  122,  123. 
Hansford,  59,  61,  78,  82,  84,  85, 
86,  90, 119, 120, 138, 156(3),  160. 


Name  Index 


173 


Harmer,  38,  119,  156. 

Harmpield  or  Harmfield,  123. 

Harper,  142. 

Harris,  140(2),  141  (2). 

Harrison,  8,  49,  57,  60,  136  (2\ 
138,  141,  160  C4). 

Harrop  Parish,  11,  12. 

Harwood,  126.  129  (2),  130  (2), 
1.56  (4). 

Harvey,  134. 

Harvy,  132,  137. 

Haskett,  134. 

Hauley,  160. 

Hawthorue,  132  (2),  133. 

Hay,  124,  127,  129,  156(2). 

Hayes,  125. 

Haynes,  126,  129  (2). 

Haython,  121. 

Hazell,  133. 

Hazlegrove,  160  (2). 

Henderson  107,  116  (7). 

Henley,  55,   60,   61,   99,   120  (4), 

160(8). 
Hennesse,  128. 
Henrikiss,  142. 
Henry,  8. 
Hensley,  160  (2). 
Herbert,  160. 
Herd,  135. 

Hewbank,  135,  136  (3). 
Higgison,  136. 
Highland,  121,  127,128(2). 
Hinton,  160. 
Hix,  139. 
Hobson,  1 60  (2). 
Hodges,  56,  60,  118,  152. 
Hoge,  125  (3). 
Holdcraft,  127,  129. 
Holden,  121. 
Holder,  133  (2). 
HoUtday,  90. 
HoUoway,  31,  32  (2),  36,  44,  90, 

119,  156. 
Holston,  160. 


Holt,  38,  119,  122  (2),  123  (2), 
126  (3),  142  (2),  156  (3). 

Hopkins,  136,  138,  141. 

Hord,  116. 

Hornshy,  99, 116  (2),  136, 156(2). 

Horrocks,  39  (2),  118,  156. 

Horsington,  133  (3). 

Horsoon,  or  Horvoor,  136. 

Hortshorue,  136. 

Howell,  138. 

Hoy,  120,  160. 

Hoye,  126. 

Hubard,  119,  128  (2),  129,  138, 
141,  156  (3). 

Hubbard,  139,  156. 

Hudson,  134(2),  137. 

Huellin,  136. 

Hughes,  124  (2),  39,  156,  161. 

Hughs,  133,  156. 

Huldston,  140. 

Hulett,  123  (4),  156. 

Humphrej's,  80,  141,  161. 

Hundley,  120,  161  (4), 

Hunley,  124,  125. 

Hunnicutt,  161. 

Hunt,  101,  116,  142. 

Hunter,  130. 

Huntington,  64. 

Hurst,  133. 

Hurt,  161. 

Hutchins,  134. 

Ince,  125,  141. 

Ingles,  109,  138,  139  (3). 

Innis,  131. 

Ireland,  133. 

Irish,  136. 

Iserell,  136. 

Ivory,  133,  136. 

Jackson,  29,  33,  122,  124,  125, 
126,  127,  130,  131,  132,  184, 
135  (2),  137,  139,  140  (2),  142, 
156(3),  161. 


174 


Name  Index 


James,  124. 

Jameson,  156. 

Jamestown,  20,  21,  22,30,  68,70, 
145,  146,  147,  149,  150,  151. 

Jaspar,  124. 

Jefferson,  8,  24,  44. 

Jeflfreys,  135. 

Jemart,  138. 

Jennings,  7,  18,  20,  26,  28,  31.  32, 
33,  34,  85,  119,  136,  141  (2), 
145. 

Jeph,  132. 

Jiggets,  130. 

Johnson,  120,  130,  132,  136,  137, 
139,  140,  142  (2),  156,  161. 

Johnsoune,  141. 

Johnston,  131,  120,161.  j 

Jonathan,  133. 

Jones,  12,  14,  15, 16(2),  17(2),  33,    | 
41,   42,    85,   88,   90,   103,    113,    i 
115(2),  116,  117,118,119(3),    | 
120,  123,  125(3).  130,133,134, 
135,  136  (2),  137,  138,  139  (2\ 
142,  156,  161  (5). 

J  orgies,  142. 

Juce,  138. 

Jude,  122  (2),  137. 

Juxton,  135. 

Kains,  141. 

Keating,  115. 

Keele,  156. 

Keen,  136  (2). 

Keith,  52,  118,  122,  156. 

Kemp,  156. 

Kempe,  105(2),  117,  132,  133. 

Kendall,  18,  20,  35,  119  (2),  137, 

156, 
Kene,  1 56. 
Kennedy,  140,  156. 
Kerle,  135,  137. 
Kernochan,  64. 
Kerr,  142. 
Kincheloe,  161. 


King,  133. 
Knight,  161  (2). 

Lacy,  161. 

LaFayette,  57. 

Laioug,  126,  128. 

Lamb,  161  (4). 

Lancaster,  133. 

Lane,      120,       123,      128,       156, 

161  (6). 
Lang.  142. 
Laughorne,  161  (2). 
Lano,  128, 
Laprade,  141  (2). 
Lark,  130  (2). 
Larke,  156. 
Langhlin,  90. 
Laughton,  140. 
Lawrence,  161. 
Lawson,  156. 
Layton,  139. 
Lea.  161  (2). 
Leaver,  139. 
Lee,  8,  161. 
Le  Merchant,  141. 
Lenox,  127  (2),  128,  129. 
Leppers,  142. 
Lett,  115. 
I^vie,  142 

Lewis,  140  (2),  142,  156. 
Lightfoot,  140,  161. 
Limb,  135. 
Lit7dsay  116  (3). 
Lisle,  130. 
Lively,  161(2). 
Long,  156. 
Lord,  138  (2). 
Low,  90. 
Lonnsdale,  135. 
Love,  138. 
Lucas,  139. 
Lackey,  132. 
Luckin,  111. 
Ludbrook,  136. 


Name  Index 


175 


Ludwell,  7.  12  (3),  13,  15  (2), 
18  (2),  20,  23,  38,  42  (2),  78, 80, 
81,  82,  83,  84  (3),  85,  1(»4,  105, 
116,  119  (3),  134. 

Luke,  141. 

Lunsford,  105,  117. 

Lyndrick,  139. 

Lynne,  143,  156. 

Lyon,  131. 

Macon,  14,  89,  119,  120,  161  (2). 

Macgrigor,  142. 

Madison,  49,  50,  51. 

Maeplin,  124. 

Major,  156. 

Man,  138. 

Mann,  86. 

Manlv,  137. 

Maples,  121,  142. 

Marable,  14,  15  (2). 

Marsh,  134  (2). 

Marshal,  8,  44,  125. 

Marston  Parish,  11,  12. 

Martin,  15,  59,  119,  129,  132.  135, 

136,  137,  138,  139  (3). 
Martyr,  128. 
Marye,  96. 
Mason,  8. 
Massey,  138. 
Masterson,  138. 
Mathews,  119,  133  (2),  134  (2). 
Matthews,  18  (2),  36. 
Maupin,  120,  127,  142(2),  156(2), 

161  (3). 
Maury,  131. 
May,  129,  156. 

Maynard,  122,  124  (2),  125,  156. 
McCandlish,  55,  59,  60,  120,   152, 

161  (3). 
McCann,  116. 
McCarty,  140  (2),  156  (4). 
McCaw,  161. 
McCloud,  138. 
McClurg,  156. 


McGrigor,  140. 

Mcintosh,  122. 

McKenzie,  121,  123,  124,  142,156. 

McKJm,  64. 

McKlim,  124. 

McPherson,  131. 

Meade,  .51,  161. 

Mecarte,  137. 

Mecbarte,  138. 

Meeke,  135. 

Menetrce,  140. 

Mercer,  49.  63,  120  (2),  161  (8), 

164. 
Meredith,  61,  118. 
Merri wether,  32  (2). 
Metcalf,  156. 
Middlesex  Parish,  11. 
Mille,  135. 
Miller,  59,  135,  161. 
MilHngton,  59,  115,  120,  141  (2). 
Mills.  136(2),  137. 
Milton,  133. 
Minitree,  138,  139. 
Minnis,  130. 
Mires,  127. 
Mitchell,  126,  138. 
Moodley,  141. 

Moody,  126,  128.129,130,156(4). 
Mooney,  115. 
Moore.  51,  55. 
Moncure,  120,  161  (3). 
Monroe,  8,  44. 
Montgomery,  90. 
Moor,  140. 
More,  114. 

Morecock,  120,  161  (5). 
Moreland,  142. 
Morgan,  133,  140. 
Moring,  124. 
Morris,  34,  139,  161  (4). 
Morrison,  68,  117,  148,  161. 
Morrow,  124. 
Morton,  129  (4),  131,  156. 
Moss,  156. 


176 


JSamc  Index 


Mottky,  161  (2). 
Moyer,  127,  156. 
Mouring,  139. 
Mourning,  122. 
Munford,  61,  120,  161  (5). 
Mundell,  142,  156. 
Munier,  161. 
Munroe,  140. 
Mnrpha,  141. 
Musgrove,  123, 124. 

Neale,  162. 

Needier,  119. 

Nelson,  131,  156. 

Newitt,  156  (2),  162. 

Newman.  141. 

Newton,  137,  142. 

Nicholas,   7.   39  (2),  40,   119  (2), 

128    (2),    129,    141,    142,    143, 

156. 
Nichols,  123,  136. 
Nicholson,  7,  20,   22,  25,  77,   78, 

80,  81,  84,  156  (3). 
Nicolson,  94,  100,116,117,124(2), 

125  (2),  127,  128,  130,  138. 
Ninino,  or  Nimno,  142,  162. 
Normand,  123. 
Northy,  76,  77,  83,  84. 
Norwell,   18,   20,    29,   78,  82,  84, 

85, 140,  spelled  Norvell,  119, 135. 
Nott,  Gov.,  26,  100,  117,  138. 

Gates,  124  (2),  125. 

Obrian,  140. 

O'Connor,  142. 

Ogleby,  141. 

O'Keeffe,  162  (3). 

Ormi(or  e)ston,  126(2). 

Orr,  93,  116,  156. 

Orrell,  130 

Overby,  61,  118. 

Owen,  135  (3). 

Owens,  12,  20,  119,  137. 145. 


Owman,  140. 
Oxley,  135. 

Pack,  141  (2). 

Packard,  148. 

Page,  7,  12,  13  (2),  14,  15,  16  (2), 
41,  42  (3),  55,  57,  59,  61,  71,  77, 
82,  84,  85,  86,  111  (4),  112  (2), 
113(2),  116(5),  118, 119  (3),  120, 
122,  123,  136  (5),  137,  145, 
156  (2). 

Paget,  140. 

Palmer,  120,  156. 

Paradice,  156. 

Parke,  7,  12  (2),  13,  18,  20,  88, 
119(2),  132(2),  134,  137,  138, 
150  (2). 

Parker,  156. 

Parks,  120,  156. 

Parr,  114. 

Parris,  142. 

Parrott,  156. 

Partridge,  133,  136. 

Pasteur,  126,  129,  141  (4),  156. 

Patterson,  156. 

Paxton,  26. 

Peachy,  55,  59,  61,  120  (4),  122, 
162(5). 

Peal,  124. 

Peale,  156. 

Pearman,  129. 

Pearson,  14,  119,  125,  127,  128, 
129,  156. 

Pegram,  140,  142. 

Peirson,  134,  136  (2). 

Pelhara,  44,  47,  127. 

Penbethman,  133,  138. 

Pendleton,  8,  50,  149. 

Pennele,  142. 

Pennman,  124,  142. 

Penny,  156. 

Peters,  124,  133,  156. 

Petticolasl62(2). 

Pettitt,  162  (2). 


Nainc  Index 


177 


Pettus,  108,  119. 

Philip,  132. 

Phillips,  127,  129,  133,  136,  162. 

Phrodono,  132. 

Pierce,  39,  59,  119  (2),  120,  135, 

156,  162. 
Pilkinton,  120. 
Pinchback,  138. 
Pi(y)nes,  137(2). 
Pinkethman,  18,  20  (2),  78,84(2), 

85,   119   (2),  133,  134,  137  (2), 

138,  139. 
Pitt,  130,  156. 
Poindexter,  15,  119. 
Pollard,  137,  141. 
Porter,  128,  135. 
Potter,  156. 
Powell,  38,  40,  125  (4),  126  (2), 

156. 
Power,  38,  120. 
Powers,  139. 
Pratt,  142. 
Predy,  132. 
Prentis,  40,  119,  120,    130,   131, 

157  (4). 
Preston,  136,  137. 
Priar,  157. 
Prichard,  135. 
Prior,  139. 
Prosser,  129. 
Pulley,  139. 

Purdie,  96,  117,  127,  128. 
Purdy,  157. 

Rae,  94,  117. 

Radcliff,  131. 

Randal,  157  (2). 

Randolph,  7,  8,  36,  38,  39,  44  (3), 

49,  50,  52,  59,  64,  115,  119  (2), 

120,  121,  157  (3),  164. 
Ratcliff,  130  (2),  139,  157. 
Ratlift,  129. 
Ravenscroft,  136. 
Rawley,  123,  143. 


Rawlinson,  123. 

Reade,  70,  139. 

Rector,  115. 

Reed,  122. 

Reid,  157. 

Renolds,  123. 

Rentmore,  134. 

Reynolds,  127,  131,  142. 

Rhodes,  125,  122  (5). 

Rhodewell,  142  (2). 

Rice,  124,  136. 

Richardson,  134,  162. 

Richerson,  125. 

Ricket,  127. 

Riddal,  140. 

Riddel,  157. 

Riddick.  162. 

Rind,  128,  129. 

Roadman,  131,  157. 

Roan,  136. 

Roberts,    62,    118,  123,  127,  136, 

157  (2),  162(3). 
Robertson,  25,  26,42,  77,85,119. 
Robinson,  123  (2),  124,  134,  135, 

136,  157. 
Rogers,  120,  134  (2),  135. 
Rogerman,  142. 
Rollison,  130. 
Rose,  125,  128  (2),  162. 
Ross,  138. 
Rovear,  139. 
Row,  138. 
Royall,  81. 
Royle,  127,  157  (3). 
Rudder,  140. 
Ruffin,  162. 
Russell,   123,  124,  130,    131,  132, 

133,  134,  157  (2). 

Sadler,  140. 
Saint,  134. 
Sampson,  134. 
Sanders,  129,  137.  141. 
Sandford,  130. 


178 


ISamc  Index 


Sands,  133  (3),  134. 

Saunders,  57,  59,  60,  61,  120  (2), 

127,  129,  157  (2;,  162  (2). 
Savage,  116,  162  (2). 
Scarborough,  157  (2). 
Sclater,  17,  26,  27. 

Scot,  130,  134. 

Scott,  4,  44,  162(3). 

Scrivener,  98,  116. 

Sebrill,  135  (2),  136,  137,  138. 

Semple,  55,  120(2). 

Seijeanten,  141. 

Sexton,  134. 

Sharpe,  133,  139,  140. 

Sheborne,  138  (2). 

Shelburn,  137. 

Sheldon,  59,  120. 

Sheppard,  127. 

Shepherd,  162. 

Sherman,  139. 

Sherwell,  162  (4). 

Shields,  59,120,121,  122,123,128, 

130,  131,  141,  142,  157  (2). 
Shoemaker,  157. 
Short,  157. 
Shurley,  133. 
Sidderdell,  157. 
Simpkins,  13,  134  (2). 
Simpson,  134. 
Simson,  145. 
Singleton,  125,  157  (2). 
Skaif,  142. 
Skinner,  56. 
Skipwith,  142. 
Slater,  162. 
Smith,  115  (2),  117,  120,  139,  140, 

157,  162  (14). 
Snow,  116. 
Somorton,  133. 
Southall,  59,  120  (2),  126,  127(2), 

128,  157  (2),  162  (10). 
Southgate,  117. 
Sparrow,  148. 
Spelman,  137. 


Spence,  142. 

Spencer,  120(2),  162  (6). 

Spottswood,  Gov.,7.33(3),34,  89 

Spratley,  157. 

Spring,  14,  119.  135. 

Spurr,  39,  157. 

Stafford,  137. 

Staige,  95,  96. 

Stanley,  139, 

Stannup, 142. 

Stanton,  69. 

Stanyard,  136. 

Stark,  157. 

Stay,  157. 

Steel,  157. 

Stephens,  133  (2). 

Stephenson,  115,  125,  162. 

Stevens,  124,  135,  138.  142. 

Stevenson,  123. 

Stevinson,  157. 

Steward,  136,  138,  140. 

Stith,  97,  116,  157  (3). 

Stokes,  131. 

Stone,  124,  126,  132,  141  (2). 

Stott,  142,  157. 

Stover,  139. 

Straughan,  140,  141. 

Strawhun,  and  hawne,  132  (2). 

Street,  127,  128,  157. 

Strickland,  138. 

Stuart,  117. 

Stubbs,  162(3). 

Sturgis,  134. 

Summers,  135. 

Sutor,  136. 

Swiney,  157. 

Sweeney,  162  (8). 

Syms,  139. 

Syncock,  138. 

Tabor,  162. 

Taliaferro,  61,  90,  120,  157,  162. 

Tandy,  137. 

Tantey,  134. 


Name  Index 


179 


Tarpley,  71,  157  (2). 
Tarrent,  140. 

Taylor,  14.,  26,  59,  90,  119,  120, 
122,  126,  129,  134,  135  (2),  136, 

139,  140   (2;,   141,    142,    143, 
157  (2),  163  (5). 

Teddar,  135,  137. 

Teer,  137  (2) 

Temple,  137. 

Theological  Seminary,  Alexandria, 

52,  148,  149. 
Thomas,  132  (2),  138,  163. 
Thompson,      34,      61,     96,     120, 

141  (2),  163(2). 
Thornton,  157. 
Thorp,     71,    101,    102,    116    (2), 

119  (2),  134  (2),  136,  137  (2). 
Tibbs,  136. 
Tiernon,  163. 
Tilford,  116. 
Tillet,  33. 
Tillyard,  26,  27. 
Timberleck,  139. 
Timson,  82,  84,  85,  119  (2),  120, 

124,    129,    135,    137  (2),    138, 

140,  142  (2),  143,  157  (3). 
Tobin,  140. 

Todd,  133. 

Todeink,  132. 

Tomson,  139  (2). 

Toop,  134  (2). 

Townsend,  134. 

Trebell,  157. 

Trewly,  142. 

Trower,  127. 

Tucker,  50,  59,  64,  115,  117  (2), 

120,  133,  163  (4),  164. 
Tuley,  132. 

Turner,  119,  134,  137, 157, 163  (2). 
Twyner,  115. 
Tyler,  8,   18,  20,  25,  44,  59,  69, 

84,  90,  106,  119,  120,  135,   137, 

138  (2),  139(2),  141(2),  142(2), 

157,  163  (4). 


Vadin,  135  (2). 

Valentine,  129,  157. 

Vanneison,  163. 

Vaulx,  119,  132,  134  (2),  140. 

Vaughan,  163. 

Veale,  134. 

Vest,  59,  60,  61,  120  (2),  163  (2). 

Vinkler,  14  (3),  119,  137. 

Vobe,  157. 

Wade,  121,  126,  139. 

Wadsworth,  135. 

Wager,  141. 

Walker,  60,  120  (2),  132. 

Wall,  61,  118,  120. 

Wallace,  26,  120. 

Waller,  38,  40,  44  (2),  55,  59  (2), 

60,    119,  120  (3),   123,  124  (2), 

125,  127  (3),  129,  157,  163  ^6). 
Walters,  132,  135,  157. 
Walthorne,  133. 
Warburton,  120,  163. 
Ward,  124. 
Ware,  163. 
Warren,  138,  163. 
Warrington,  126  (2),  127  (2),  129. 
Warters,  157. 
Washington,  Gen.  Geo.,  8,  48,  89, 

121,  150,  157. 
Washington,  50,  90,  115,  150. 
Watkins,  124. 
Watson,  136,  137. 
Wattles,  134(2). 
Weatherburn,  157(3). 
Webb,  55,  120,  138,  163. 
Weinberger,  163. 
Weldon,  140. 
WeUings,  123. 
Wells,  122(2),  132  (2),   133,  136, 

137,  138. 
West,  136,  138,  140  (2). 
Westmore,  127. 
Westwood,  116. 
Wetherford,  138. 


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Name  Index 


Weymouth,  163. 

Whaley,  110,  116(2),  119  (2),  133, 

138.  ,A 

Wharton,  61,  84,   118,  134,  139, 

163. 
Wheatley,  or  Whateley,  22(2),  23, 

26,  27,  76,78(4),  80,  82(2),  83, 

84,  85  (2),  86(4),  118,139,157. 
Wheeler,  133. 
Whitaker,  157. 
Whitby,  137. 
White,  78,  82,  86,  119,  128,   129, 

132    (3),    133    (2),     135,    136, 

137(3),  138(2),  139,141. 
Whitehair,  133. 
Whitehead,  141. 
Whiting,  135,  136. 
Whitlock,  139. 
Whittaker,  128. 
Wickham,  50,  137. 
Wiggs,  138  (2). 
Wilburn,  163  (3). 
Wilkins,  123,  124  (2),  132,  163. 
Wilkinson,     133,     134    (2),    135, 

141  (2),  163  (5). 
William  and  Mary  College,  30, 37, 

43,  44,  47,  52,  84,  90,  100,  157. 
Williams,  89,  116,  119,  134,  136, 

140,  163  (4). 
Williamson,  163. 


Willis,  141,  157. 

Wills,  163. 

Wilmer,  52,  53  (2),  60,  61,  62,  91, 

116,  118  (2),  147,  149,  163  (4.) 
Wilson,  124  (3),  129,  132. 
Winchcom,  135. 
Winder,  116. 
Windsor,  140. 
Wingfield,  120. 
Wisdem,  134. 
Wise,  120,  163. 
Withers,  125. 
Wolley,  114. 
Wood,  142. 
Woods,  133  (2). 
Woodbridge,  95. 
Woody,  157. 
Wooten,  163. 
Wray,    38,    119,    123    (2),     142, 

157  1,2). 
Wright,  115, 124, 130  (2),  131,  163 
Wyatt,  116,  122,  142. 
Wylde,  119,  132  (2),  134. 
Wynn,  141. 
Wythe,  8,  39,  40,  44,  48,  50,  119, 

157  (2). 

Yates,  39,  118,  136,  157. 
Young,  141. 
Yuille,  93,  116. 


Subject  Unbei 


Addenda,  Historical,  including  : — 
(1)  Additional  notes  from  Vestry 
book  of  1674,  pp.  145-146.  (2) 
Notes  relative  to  the  removal  and 
return  of  the  Jamestow^n  Com- 
munion Silver,  pp.  147-150.  (3) 
Inscriptions  on  Custis'  tomb- 
stones, p.  150.  (4)  Note  relative 
to  scattered  and  neglected  tomb- 
stones, p.  151.  (5)  Note  relative 
to  slave  baptisms,  p.  152.  (6) 
List  of  persons  w^ho  had  slaves 
baptized,  pp.  154-157.  (7)  Com- 
municant Listfrom  1868  to  1904, 
pp.  158-163.  (8)  Meeting,  and 
action  of  Restoration  Advisory 
Committee,  p.  164.  (9)  Note 
relative  to  the  preservation  of 
Historical  records  and  memo- 
rials, p.  166. 

Associations  connected  with 
Church,  7,  66. 

Attendance,  compulsory,  41. 

Baptism  ol  Slaves,  121,  152-157. 

Bell,  the  Church,  16,40,71.  Belfry, 
16,  39.  40. 

Birth  Record,  from  1739  to  1789, 
121-131. 

Bishop  of  London,  27, 36, 45,  81, 82 

Blair,  Commissary,  27,  extracts 
from  his  sermons,  72,  death  of,  37 

Blandford  Church,  Petersburg,  Va., 
inscription  on  wall  of,  21,  date 
of.  21. 

Boundary  line  between  Bruton 
Parish  and  James  City,  145. 

Buck,  John  H.,  quoted,  68. 

Burgesses,  House  of,  donations  to 
Church,  31,  32,  37,  38,  42,  ap- 
pealed to,  145. 

Burial  in  Chancel  and  in  Church, 
fees  for,  42. 

Catharine  Memorial  Society,  62. 


Church,  Building  of  1683,  12,  of 
1715,  31. 

Clock,  in  Church  steeple  (thought 
by  President  L.  G.  Tyler  to  have 
been  formerly  in  House  of 
Burgesses),  60. 

Colonial,  Church  service  described, 
45.  Governors  mentioned,  7, 
Governor's  pew,  42,  57. 

Communicants,  list  of  from  1868 
to  1904,  158-163. 

Communion  Silver,  Queen  Anne, 
30,  68,  69.  Jamestown  and 
King  George  IH  silver  described 
and  illustrated,  68-70.  Protected 
during  the  war,  61.  Jamestown 
set  removed  and  restored, 
147-150. 

Confederate  memorial,  92,  114. 

Consecration  of  Church,  question 
of,  16,  51. 

Cost  of  material  and  labor  in  1713, 
35. 

Death  record  from  1662  to  1751, 
132-143, 

Dedication  of  Church  of  1683,  15. 

Despoliation,  legislative,  49-51. 

Dimensions  of  Church,  32,  33,  34, 
37,  38. 

Donations  to  Church,  of  money, 
13,  14,  15,  25,  55,  56.  Silver 
server,  18.  Altar  Cloth,  25.  By 
House  of  Burgesses,  32,  33,  38. 
Legac}^  from  Mrs.  Besouth,  35. 
Bible  given,  36.  Gift  of  Church 
yard  land,  42.  Furniture  by 
Catharine  Memorial  Society,  62. 
Communion  Silver,  68-70.  Bell, 
71.     Plans,  33,  164. 

Endowment  for  preservation  of 
Church,  should  be  provided,  67. 

Enlargement  of  Church,  37,  38—. 

Episcopal  Visitations,  51. 


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Subject  Index 


Epitaphs  and  Inscriptions,  87-115, 

150. 
Fees  of  Clerk  and  Sexton,  16. 
Fiske,  John,  quoted,  24. 
Font,   Jamestown,    22,  70.   lUus- 

tration  of,  30, 
Galleries  mentioned,    43,  44,   47, 

55,  56,  59  (diagram),  60,  62—. 
Glebe  lands,  36,  49-51. 
Governors,  Colonial,  mentioned,  7. 

Pew  of,  7,  42,  47,  57. 
Hall,  Dr.  J.  L.,  quoted,  87. 
Hospital,  Church  used  as,  61. 
Induction  Controversy,  17,  19, 23, 

32,  76-86. 
In  Memoriam,  67. 
Innovations,  55,  56,  62. 
Jamestown,    abandoned,      20-22, 

Font,  22,70.  Communion  silver, 

22,   68,    70,    147-150.      Church 

tower,  picture  of,   21.     Church 

door,     146.       Dispute     as     to 

boundary  of  Parish,  145. 
King  George,  silver,  70. 
Mayor's  pew,  57. 
Middle  Plantation,  11,  12,  146. 
Ministers,   character  of,    20,    45. 

List  of,  118.     Others  mentioned, 

26,  49,  64,  123,    130,   137  (2), 

141,  142.    Salary  of,  41. 
Name  Index,  168-180. 
Names  of   those  who   had  slaves 

baptized,  154-157. 
Names  of  Pew-renters  in  1840,  59. 
Names   on    Tomb-stones,   list    of, 

115. 
Names  of  Vestry  men,  119-120. 
Old  Regime,  passing  of,  45. 
Organ,  secured,  37,  loft,  44,   sold, 

56. 
Parish,    Formation     of,    11,     12. 

Name    of,    12.     Limits    of,    36. 

Bounds,    dispute    as    to,    145. 

Processioned,  146. 


Parish  House,  deeded,  62. 

Pews,  new  ones  secured,  36.  Oiled, 
37.  Assigned  to  Governor, 
42,  57.  In  Chancel,  41,  42. 
Other  pews  assigned,  43.  As- 
signed to  College  students,  43, 44. 
Cut  down,  55.  Rented,  names 
of  renters,  59.     Made  free,  60. 

Plan  of  Church  of  1715  furnished 
by  Gov.  Alex.  Spottswood, 
33—. 

Preservation  of  tomb-stones,  151. 
Of  old  records  and  memorials, 
166. 

Presidents  who  worshipped  in 
Church,  8. 

Processioning  of  Parish  bounds, 
146. 

Pulpit,  36,  62. 

Quakers,  in  arrears,  19,  20. 

Record  books  of  Parish,  4,  62,  71. 
Photograph  of,  121.  Preserva- 
tion of,  166. 

Repairs  to  Church  mentioned,  19, 
22,  25,  35,  36,  37,  52,  62,  67. 
To  tomb-stones,  62. 

Restoration  movement,  9,  63. 
Advisory  Committee  Meeting, 
164. 

Revolution,  effect  upon  Church, 
45,  48.     The  Church  after,  49. 

Silver  given,  18,  35,  68. 

Slaves  baptized,  the  record  of,  121. 
Note  as  to,  152.  Total  number 
each  year,  153.  Alphabetical 
list  of  persons  w^ho  had  slaves 
baptized  from  1746  to  1797, 
155-157. 

Statistics  of  Congregation  in  1724, 
36.  In  1821  and  1826,  52.  In 
1828,  54. 

Subscribers  to  Church  Building  of 
1683,  13-14. 

Thomas,  R.  S.,  quoted,  49. 


Subject  Index 


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Tomb-stone   Inscriptions,  87-115. 

Repaired,  62.  Preservation  of,  151 
Tyler,  President  Lyon  G.,  quoted, 

13,  38,  42,  69. 
Universalist  minister  not  allowed 

to  preach  in  Church,  56. 
Vestry,   old   orders,    41.     Book  of 

1827,  55. 


Vestrymen,  position  and  authority 
of  Colonial,  24.  Last  before 
Civil  War,  60.  First  after,  61. 
List  of,  119- 120. 

William  and  Mary  College,  30,  37, 
43,  44,  47,  52,  84,  90,  100,  157. 

Yard  to  Church,  given,  14,  42. 
W^all  of,  39. 


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